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

Thu Apr 26 20:59:33 UTC 2007
Jeremy Gray <jrgray at gmail.com>

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 only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as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.
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