[CentOS] FreeNX authenticates but no desktop on centos 5 ??

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 26 April 2007 4:59:33 pm Jeremy Gray wrote:
> On 4/26/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray at 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 only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as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.

AFAIK, nx only needs ssh.
Could the problem be that the CentOS 5 box is not allowing X11 forwarding over 
ssh?

check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file for 'X11Forwarding yes'

HTH, 
Tim
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