On Thursday 26 April 2007 4:59:33 pm Jeremy Gray wrote:
On 4/26/07, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray jrgray@gmail.com wrote:
However, I note that at http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX is says that
freenx
only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as
freenx
is shipped as part of centos 5. I saw a post today saying that freenx is supposed to work exactly the same on CentOS 5 as per instructions for 4. hmmm. I've tried uninstalling freenx on the centOS 5 machine and reinstalling.
any suggestions appreciated! many thanks,
I wish I could say something useful to you. I followed the instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX and all is fine on CentOS 5.
All I did on the server mchine was to 'run yum install nx freenx' and nothing else. It creates user "nx" on the server. For the client, again, I followed the procedure exactly as shown on the wiki page, nothing extra.
thanks for the encouragement, Akemi!
here's slightly more info. I just tried nmap'ing the two machines ("nmap -p 1-65535 localhost"). the centos 4.4 machine has two open ports when I have an active nx connection: port 22/tcp for ssh, and port 7000/tcp for "afs3-fileserver". on the centos 5 machine, I have port 22/tcp open for ssh but nothing else is open, nor does something pop open when the nxclient authenticates.
AFAIK, nx only needs ssh. Could the problem be that the CentOS 5 box is not allowing X11 forwarding over ssh?
check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file for 'X11Forwarding yes'
HTH, Tim