and here's even more details
On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray jrgray@gmail.com 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only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as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
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.
sorry, I should have posted this in my original post (but didn't know where to find it). the error message in the client when the connection attempt times out says:
NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 1600 NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options NX> 200 Connected to address: ***edited*** on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-60-SVN OS (GPL) NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0 NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.5.0 NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD NX> 105 login NX> 101 User: ***edited*** NX> 102 Password: NX> 103 Welcome to: ***edited*** user: ***edited*** NX> 105 listsession --user="***edited***" --status="suspended,running" --geometry="1280x854x32+render" --type="unix-gnome" NX> 127 Sessions list of user '***edited***' for reconnect:
Display Type Session ID Options Depth Screen Status Session Name ------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------
NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: ***edited*** NX> 105 startsession --link="isdn" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1" --encryption="1" --cache="8M" --images="32M" --media="0" --session="**edited**" --type="unix-gnome" --geometry="1024x768+128+30" --kbtype="query" --screeninfo="1024x768x32+render"
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Killed by signal 15.
there are some minor difference in the startsession call between the centos 4.4 (when looking at ~/.nx/temp/sshlog) and centos 5 (the above error log), but these seem really minor (--kbtype and --link). a mystery. maybe I'm just destined to be a vnc user :-).