keep 'em coming! > > > yes, at the console its doing lots of lovely gnome-like things, and > > fires up over vnc > > OK, the next obvious thing is the user logging in. Did you log in as > the same user on the console for the gnome test? yes, I've been using the same user account at both the console and the nxclient. and I also made a new testuser account (completely new) on the server, no difference: authentication but no desktop. Also, in the NX > client's advanced configuration section, did you check the 'enable ssl > encryption of all traffic' box. That might or might not be needed, > depending on firewalling. yes indeed, ssl encryption of all traffic is enabled. and --encryption="1" shows up in the "details" window on the client error message section for the "startsession ..." call there's no proxy that I'm going through for either box (CentOS 5, 4.4). the two firewalls do differ a little. the centos 4.4 one has these two lines in iptables -L output ACCEPT ipv6-crypt-- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT ipv6-auth-- anywhere anywhere whereas 5 does not but instead has ACCEPT esp -- anywhere anywhere ACCEPT ah -- anywhere anywhere and the centos 5 also has the line (which 4.4 does not) ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ipp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070427/14e2e0bd/attachment-0004.html>