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

Sat Apr 28 19:15:22 UTC 2007
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On 4/28/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> so to recap, my little issue (freenx authenticates but no desktop, on a
> centos 5 but not a centos 4 machine as nxserver) happens from both mac and
> windows nxclient. I think this narrows it down to something about my centos
> 5 nxserver (that machine), and something that is not: the firewall or
> SELinux (same thing with the firewall disabled & selinux permissive), gnome
> (the console and vnc give me a clean gnome session with the same user
> account), authentication key issues (authenticates just fine), a specific
> user account (same for new account), or ssl encryption (enabled), run level
> or ssh forwarding (these are not supposed to matter much; I'm at run level 5
> with ssh forwarding enabled).

OK, I did something I had never done before - installing nxclient on a
Windows box and connecting to my CentOS-5 mchine.  NO problem there.

You can probably see both of my hands up in the air.  :)

Akemi