Hi,
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
says: NX and FreeNX are only available for Centos 4 and 5
Alternative?
Thanks in advance for ideas.
Helmut
On 02/08/11 12:26, Helmut Drodofsky wrote:
Hi,
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
says: NX and FreeNX are only available for Centos 4 and 5
http://pkgs.org/centos-6-rhel-6/atrpms-x86_64/freenx-server-0.7.3-18.el6.x86...
John.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de wrote:
Hi,
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
says: NX and FreeNX are only available for Centos 4 and 5
Alternative?
nx/freenx for CentOS-6 is under development. You can follow the status here:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4507
The current testing version can be found here:
http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/
freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay
I have been running them on EL6 systems (including upstream-6.0 and 6.1, SL6.0 and SL6.1) without a problem. Several people also have reported success.
Akemi
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:53:37AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
The current testing version can be found here:
http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/
freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay
I have been running them on EL6 systems (including upstream-6.0 and 6.1, SL6.0 and SL6.1) without a problem. Several people also have reported success.
I'm one of those people. It's worked pretty much out of the box for me--though if you use SELinux, also go to toracat's blog on fixing that. It can be found with a quick google of toracat freenx selinux.
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On 08/02/2011 08:18 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:53:37AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
The current testing version can be found here:
http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/
freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay
I have been running them on EL6 systems (including upstream-6.0 and 6.1, SL6.0 and SL6.1) without a problem. Several people also have reported success.
I'm one of those people. It's worked pretty much out of the box for me--though if you use SELinux, also go to toracat's blog on fixing that. It can be found with a quick google of toracat freenx selinux.
I have updated that web site. What is the path of the .ssh directory that is giving you a problem? Does running restorecon on the directory solve it?
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Daniel J Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com wrote:
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On 08/02/2011 08:18 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:53:37AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
The current testing version can be found here:
http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/
freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay
I have been running them on EL6 systems (including upstream-6.0 and 6.1, SL6.0 and SL6.1) without a problem. Several people also have reported success.
I'm one of those people. It's worked pretty much out of the box for me--though if you use SELinux, also go to toracat's blog on fixing that. It can be found with a quick google of toracat freenx selinux.
I have updated that web site. What is the path of the .ssh directory that is giving you a problem? Does running restorecon on the directory solve it?
Thanks for the post at:
http://blog.toracat.org/2010/12/selinux-and-freenx/
User nx's home directory is /var/lib/nxserver/home .
# ls -al /var/lib/nxserver/home/ total 12 drwx------. 3 nx root 4096 Nov 10 2010 . drwx------. 4 nx root 4096 Nov 10 2010 .. drwx------. 2 nx root 4096 Nov 10 2010 .ssh
I will test your suggestion and report back with what I find.
Akemi
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Daniel J Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com wrote:
I have updated that web site. What is the path of the .ssh directory that is giving you a problem? Does running restorecon on the directory solve it?
Thanks for the post at:
http://blog.toracat.org/2010/12/selinux-and-freenx/
User nx's home directory is /var/lib/nxserver/home .
I will test your suggestion and report back with what I find.
Yes, that indeed solved the selinux issue. First, using a test VM, I made sure connection failed if selinux was enabled. Then I ran:
restorecon -R -v /var/lib/nxserver
and now I am able to connect without a problem.
Thanks for your help. I will update the blog accordingly.
Akemi
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Daniel J Walsh dwalsh@redhat.com wrote:
I have updated that web site. What is the path of the .ssh directory that is giving you a problem? Does running restorecon on the directory solve it?
Thanks for the post at:
http://blog.toracat.org/2010/12/selinux-and-freenx/
User nx's home directory is /var/lib/nxserver/home .
I will test your suggestion and report back with what I find.
Yes, that indeed solved the selinux issue. First, using a test VM, I made sure connection failed if selinux was enabled. Then I ran:
restorecon -R -v /var/lib/nxserver
and now I am able to connect without a problem.
Thanks for your help. I will update the blog accordingly.
I now have an updated version of freenx that runs the above restorecon command upon installation. With this version, there is no need for the selinux tweak. Please test if you can.
http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/
freenx-0.7.3-8.el6.ay is the latest. nx remains the same ( nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay ).
Akemi
The rpms from ATrpms.net have not installed correct. E.g. I'm missing the entries for /etc/init.d/freenx-server or something like that.
The rpms described below are installing well as far as I can see.
Selinux is disabled now for easy testing and then the server rebooted.
NX Client reports NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 23316 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: 192.168.140.13 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication failed.
And is reporting: "...NX service not available or NX access disabled on host ...
IP is correct. ssh login with this IP: no problem.
Client key is copied from /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
My NX server on CentOS 5.x are running well....
Do you use key authentication or have you configured nx user and passwords?
Helmut
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Scott Robbins Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. August 2011 14:18 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and freenx
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:53:37AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
The current testing version can be found here:
http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/
freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay
I have been running them on EL6 systems (including upstream-6.0 and 6.1, SL6.0 and SL6.1) without a problem. Several people also have reported success.
I'm one of those people. It's worked pretty much out of the box for me--though if you use SELinux, also go to toracat's blog on fixing that. It can be found with a quick google of toracat freenx selinux.
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de wrote:
The rpms from ATrpms.net have not installed correct. E.g. I'm missing the entries for /etc/init.d/freenx-server or something like that.
The stuff at atrpms is not being maintained, and if I remember, the nx package is old and yet labeled "bleeding".
The rpms described below are installing well as far as I can see.
Selinux is disabled now for easy testing and then the server rebooted.
NX Client reports NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 23316 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: 192.168.140.13 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication failed.
And is reporting: "...NX service not available or NX access disabled on host ...
IP is correct. ssh login with this IP: no problem.
Client key is copied from /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
My NX server on CentOS 5.x are running well....
Do you use key authentication or have you configured nx user and passwords?
I wonder if the trouble has to do with the fact you have installed the packages from atrpms. Can you show us the output from:
rpm -qa | grep nx
And perhaps,
rpm -qf /etc/nxserver/node.conf
??
Akemi
[root@fw ~]# rpm -qa | grep nx nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay.x86_64 freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay.x86_64
[root@fw ~]# rpm -qf /etc/nxserver/node.conf freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay.x86_64
The directory /etc/nxserver was manually deleted after uninstall of the atrpms installation.
Also rpm -e nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay.x86_64 freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay.x86_64 does no delete on this directory.
Helmut
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Akemi Yagi Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. August 2011 17:58 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and freenx
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de wrote:
The rpms from ATrpms.net have not installed correct. E.g. I'm missing the entries for /etc/init.d/freenx-server or something like that.
The stuff at atrpms is not being maintained, and if I remember, the nx package is old and yet labeled "bleeding".
The rpms described below are installing well as far as I can see.
Selinux is disabled now for easy testing and then the server rebooted.
NX Client reports NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 23316 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: 192.168.140.13 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication failed.
And is reporting: "...NX service not available or NX access disabled on host ...
IP is correct. ssh login with this IP: no problem.
Client key is copied from /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
My NX server on CentOS 5.x are running well....
Do you use key authentication or have you configured nx user and passwords?
I wonder if the trouble has to do with the fact you have installed the packages from atrpms. Can you show us the output from:
rpm -qa | grep nx
And perhaps,
rpm -qf /etc/nxserver/node.conf
??
Akemi _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
- I have reinstalled CentOS 6 and then installed freenx-0.7.3-7.el6.ay.x86_64.rpm and nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay.x86_64.rpm. This works fine.
So I think the reason for the problem was the before installed freenx and nx from atrpms. The rpms are from November 2010. There is no hint, that they are bleeding or something else. See http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el6/nx/ and http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el6/freenx/
Best would be, they purge these files.
Best regards
Helmut
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Akemi Yagi Gesendet: Dienstag, 2. August 2011 17:58 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and freenx
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodofsky@internet-xs.de wrote:
The rpms from ATrpms.net have not installed correct. E.g. I'm missing the entries for /etc/init.d/freenx-server or something like that.
The stuff at atrpms is not being maintained, and if I remember, the nx package is old and yet labeled "bleeding".
The rpms described below are installing well as far as I can see.
Selinux is disabled now for easy testing and then the server rebooted.
NX Client reports NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 23316 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: 192.168.140.13 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication failed.
And is reporting: "...NX service not available or NX access disabled on host ...
IP is correct. ssh login with this IP: no problem.
Client key is copied from /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
My NX server on CentOS 5.x are running well....
Do you use key authentication or have you configured nx user and passwords?
I wonder if the trouble has to do with the fact you have installed the packages from atrpms. Can you show us the output from:
rpm -qa | grep nx
And perhaps,
rpm -qf /etc/nxserver/node.conf
??
Akemi _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Helmut Drodofsky wrote:
So I think the reason for the problem was the before installed freenx and nx from atrpms. The rpms are from November 2010. There is no hint, that they are bleeding or something else. See http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el6/nx/ and http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el6/freenx/
FWIW, nx is colored red here: http://packages.atrpms.net/dist/el6/ . The legend for the red color-code says "bleeding packages means asking for trouble!"
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Helmut Drodofsky wrote:
Hi,
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
says: NX and FreeNX are only available for Centos 4 and 5
Alternative?
I stopped using freenx when I found xrdp. yum install xrdp will do it. I find it much easier to setup and maintain.
here is what the rpm says:
Name : xrdp Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.5.0 Release : 0.13.el6 Size : 240 k Repo : epel Summary : Open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server URL : http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ License : GPLv2+ with exceptions Description: The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal : server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own : terminal server / remote desktop clients.
Regards,
Personally, I am blown away by the performance of Tiger VNC - so much so that I no longer use either NX nor FreeNX. I don't get sounds - but youtube runs very smoothly...
Of course, I've not been able to resize a running desktop like I have with the **NX's - but since the performance has been so good - I don't care :)
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Tom Diehl wrote:
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Helmut Drodofsky wrote:
Hi,
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
says: NX and FreeNX are only available for Centos 4 and 5
Alternative?
I stopped using freenx when I found xrdp. yum install xrdp will do it. I find it much easier to setup and maintain.
here is what the rpm says:
Name : xrdp Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.5.0 Release : 0.13.el6 Size : 240 k Repo : epel Summary : Open source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server URL : http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ License : GPLv2+ with exceptions Description: The goal of this project is to provide a fully functional Linux terminal : server, capable of accepting connections from rdesktop and Microsoft's own : terminal server / remote desktop clients.
Regards,
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On 8/2/2011 9:48 AM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
Personally, I am blown away by the performance of Tiger VNC - so much so that I no longer use either NX nor FreeNX. I don't get sounds - but youtube runs very smoothly...
Is there any way to manage user sessions with VNC? I've seen it set up so that xinetd spins up a fresh session on every connection and kills it if you disconnect, and alternatively with pre-configured long running sessions attached to specific ports. What I'd like is something that acts more like freenx/NX where your first login sets up a session that you can either suspend or terminate when you disconnect and you can reconnect to sessions suspended under your login.
Les,
Great question - and I'm not sure to be honest. Much of what I do (sysadmin type work) is for my home network (I'm a developer by trade).
I guess the right answer is, I haven't had a need yet - so I don't know ;)
At one point, I did have it set up so VNC controlled the glass - meaning I could VNC to my computer like I was sitting in front of the monitor. That's pretty easy (or was easy) to do...
On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 8/2/2011 9:48 AM, Scot P. Floess wrote:
Personally, I am blown away by the performance of Tiger VNC - so much so that I no longer use either NX nor FreeNX. I don't get sounds - but youtube runs very smoothly...
Is there any way to manage user sessions with VNC? I've seen it set up so that xinetd spins up a fresh session on every connection and kills it if you disconnect, and alternatively with pre-configured long running sessions attached to specific ports. What I'd like is something that acts more like freenx/NX where your first login sets up a session that you can either suspend or terminate when you disconnect and you can reconnect to sessions suspended under your login.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Scot P. Floess RHCT (Certificate Number 605010084735240) Chief Architect FlossWare http://sourceforge.net/projects/flossware http://flossware.sourceforge.net https://github.com/organizations/FlossWare
On 8/2/2011 7:02 AM, Tom Diehl wrote:
I stopped using freenx when I found xrdp. yum install xrdp will do it. I find it much easier to setup and maintain.
That does look usable, but I've never had to do anything more than 'yum install/update' to maintain freenx - and paste the client key into each NX client once. There are a few more steps with 6.0 and SELinux enabled.
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