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 only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as freenx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.