[CentOS] xterm clones on VNC problem

[Les Mikesell]

Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Freenx is packaged, so there is nothing to installing it. The only thing
>> remotely time-consuming is getting the unique key it puts in
>> /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key on the server side into the client, which
>> you  can do in the GUI configuration
> 
> I guess you are right on that account. I got it yum installed and the
> nxclient in Windows up in less than 5 minutes. It's been half an hour
> since I tried to log in. Copied the users public dsa and imported it,
> didn't work. Tried uninstalling and reinstalling with options to
> ensure I was using the default nomachine key which hopefully the
> windows client is setup with by default, didn't work. Although there
> was some error about passwd being unsafe and using -f. Googling around
> didn't turn up much useful information except some other folks were
> having the same problem without resolution.
> 
> Finally tried copy and pasting the key through vnc, didn't work either.
> 
> So I'm giving up for now. The answer's probably in documentation
> somewhere but  I've been going through tons of
> documentation/readme/faqs/KB for work with more to digest that I just
> don't have the energy to spend on something unessential for now.
> 
> Thanks anyway for the suggestion, will try again when I am more free.

I don't remember having to change anything from defaults.  I usually use putty 
to ssh in initially and copy/paste the key contents into the NX config.  Note 
that you aren't using the user's own key, but the one in 
/etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key.  The software does an initial login as the 'nx' 
user, using that session to encrypt the session as the real user logs in with a 
password. And if you leave the default (don't check the 'Disable encryption of 
all traffic') everything runs over the port 22 ssh connection.   But, I've 
always used gnome sessions.  It might be different if you use KDE.

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   Les Mikesell
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