On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:07 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:53 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:42 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:35, Craig White wrote: > > > > installed freenx server on CentOS 4 server > > > > installed nxclient from nomachine.com on workstation > > > > > > > > so far so good. > > > > > > > > following directions from web site... > > > > http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ > > > > > > > > where I tried both /etc/nxserver/client/client.id_dsa.key > > > > and /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key > > > > > > > > copied them to my workstation and then used the 'import' function in > > > > nxclient to import the keys and try to connect and always get the > > > > following detail when I failed to connect... > > > > > > Try pasting the text from /etc/nxserver/client/client.id_dsa.key > > > into the nxclient key window and saving it instead of using > > > the import function. > > ---- > > that actually got me a lot further...I get 'authentication failed for > > user craig' > > > > So back on the server, I tried... > > > > nxserver --adduser craig > > > > this seemed to create /home/craig/.ssh/authorized_keys2 > > > > nxserver --passwd craig > > > > and set the password but still get the same 'authentication failed for > > user craig' > > > > craig needs to be a real linux user with a passwd who can login via ssh. ---- to answer both you and Les - craig is a real linux user and has a passwd and can login via ssh... # ssh craig at srv1 craig at srv1's password: Last login: Sun Jan 22 07:31:34 2006 from win-workstation.azapple.com this is exasperating to say the least. # ls -l /var/log/nxserver.log -rw------- 1 nx root 0 Jan 23 15:54 /var/log/nxserver.log since it's empty and /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure also give absolutely no hints Thanks Craig