--- On Wed, 4/27/11, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
From: Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access To: centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011, 1:59 PM On 4/27/2011 12:43 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
On 4/26/2011 9:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
Currently I have VNC running on my Windows desktop
with Samba
providing access to my Linux server. Since
Linux is more
reliable than Windows, I would like to be able to
access my Linux
(Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook - hopefully
via VNC or some
similar application and then access the Windows
desktop (if it is
not locked up :-) ) with Samba.
What is the best VNC like application to install
or use on the
Linux server?
Todd
WOW! A few choices. in checking the ssh
configuration file, I
am setup using password authentication - not the best
choice. If
I change that to NO, is it easy to change my ssh
client? One
client I use is SSH Tectia.
Clients normally try key-based authentication first if they have the private side of the identity key.
Of course, this will require a change in FreeNX.
The NX client uses passwordless key authentication to connect as the nx user first, then uses that encrypted channel to do password-based authentication as the actual user. So you at least have to permit passwords over the loopback (127.0.0.x) interface.
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I just tried FreeNX on server (centos), and NX Client from Nomachine. Setup was not bad, though too many sources of info. Settled on centos wiki doc to get me going. However, once I got logged in (using gnome), there are some very normal applications that I am unable to launch, and they work flawlessly with Xming (or the commercial Xwin32). For example, I am unable to launch a gui for our backup program, netvault, gui is "nvgui". It simply flashes, and dies out. That was on day one. I suspended the session, and tried to re-attach this morning. It worked, great. However, it seems to have a big issue with backing store. I have killed all sessions, reconnected, same issue. If I "shake" a window, it leaves its traces all over, and there is nothing I can do about it but kill the session again and retry. Any ideas?