[CentOS] FreeNX

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Fri Aug 12 15:04:47 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16:57 +0200, Dominik Składanowski wrote:
> >>>>>>>"yum install nx freenx" and it works fine. FreeNX server in extras repo
> >>>>>>>is 1.4.0 version, but from http://www.nomachine.com/download.php you can
> >>>>>>>download only new 1.5.0 version. Will it be works together?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>I couldn't get the latest client from NoMachine to work with the
> >>>>>>latest FreeNX packages on WBEL4, I had to grub around for an older
> >>>>>>client, nxclient-1.4.0-92.exe. I think I found it on download.com or
> >>>>>>similar.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=nxclient-1.4.0-92.exe&meta=
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>The first hit has direct links to the download.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I have checked it on my CentOS 4.1 box. In "extras" CentOS repo there is
> >>>>>1.4.0 NX server, and from nomachine site you can download only 1.5.0
> >>>>>client - it don't work together. Server and client have to be the same
> >>>>>version.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Has anybody NX client 1.4.0 for linux?
> >>>>
> >>>>They work fine together (1.5.0 client and 1.4.0 server) ... I am using
> >>>>them right now.
> >>>>
> >>>>The client is free, but it is not GPL or distributable.
> >>>>
> >>>>I am going to build the 1.5.0 server in a couple hours ... I'll e-mail
> >>>>you when it is updated ... but I am typing this right now from a machine
> >>>>running 1.5 client (on CentOS-3) connected to a 1.4.0 server (on
> >>>>CentOS-4).
> >>>>
> >>>>I also connected to this server via a 1.5.0 windows client.
> >>>
> >>>OK ... I built and installed / tested the 1.5.0 server RPM for CentOS-4
> >>>i386.  It is now posted to the main server and syncing to the mirrors.
> >>>
> >>>in 15-20 minutes, nx-1.5.0-0.centos4.i386.rpm and
> >>>freenx-0.4.4-1.centos4.noarch.rpm should be available at:
> >>>
> >>>http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/extras/i386/RPMS/
> >>>
> >>>See this article for install instructions:
> >>>
> >>>http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
> >>
> >>Thanks for mail Johnny. I just updated (yum update) my FreeNX server,
> >>restarted - nxserver, sshd and finally system - and still "nxserver
> >>--status" appears as a 1.4.0 version. On my second CentOS box I made 1/2
> >>hour ago fresh install of FreeNX server and it's the same.
> >>
> >>Of course rpm in extras repo is named 1.5.0.
> >>
> >>Strange but true.
> >>
> >>Maybe am I doing something wrong?
> > 
> > 
> > You are not doing anything wrong ... the output of that command provides
> > this for me:
> > 
> > NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-44 OS (GPL)
> > 
> > but, the package that provides the the file nxserver is freenx and not
> > nx.
> > 
> > Here are the NX sourcefiles involved in the nx rpm:
> > 
> > URL:            http://www.nomachine.com
> > Source0:        nxproxy-1.5.0-9.tar.gz
> > Source1:        nxcomp-1.5.0-63.tar.gz
> > Source2:        nxcompext-1.5.0-16.tar.gz
> > Source3:        nx-X11-1.5.0-15.tar.gz
> > Source4:        nxagent-1.5.0-87.tar.gz
> > Source5:        nxviewer-1.5.0-14.tar.gz
> > Source6:        nxdesktop-1.5.0-59.tar.gz
> > Source7:        nxscripts-1.5.0-11.tar.gz
> > Source9:        nxagent
> > 
> > Those are the latest files freenx and nx source for RPM distros from:
> > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
> > 
> > I am again use the 1.5.0 client for Linux on CentOS-3 connected to the
> > latest nx, freenx CentOS-4 server.
> 
> OK.
> 
> I tried to connect to FreeNX server (CentOS 4.1) after today update
> (1.5.0) using both nxclients (Windows): 1.4.0 and 1.5.0.
> Only 1.4.0 nxclient can connect.

Did you paste the key from the server
at /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key

into your client?
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