and here's even more details On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray at gmail.com> 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 only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as 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. > sorry, I should have posted this in my original post (but didn't know where to find it). the error message in the client when the connection attempt times out says: NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 1600 NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options NX> 200 Connected to address: ***edited*** on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.5.0-60-SVN OS (GPL) NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0 NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.5.0 NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD NX> 105 login NX> 101 User: ***edited*** NX> 102 Password: NX> 103 Welcome to: ***edited*** user: ***edited*** NX> 105 listsession --user="***edited***" --status="suspended,running" --geometry="1280x854x32+render" --type="unix-gnome" NX> 127 Sessions list of user '***edited***' for reconnect: Display Type Session ID Options Depth Screen Status Session Name ------- ---------------- -------------------------------- -------- ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------ NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: ***edited*** NX> 105 startsession --link="isdn" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1" --encryption="1" --cache="8M" --images="32M" --media="0" --session="**edited**" --type="unix-gnome" --geometry="1024x768+128+30" --kbtype="query" --screeninfo="1024x768x32+render" ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host Killed by signal 15. there are some minor difference in the startsession call between the centos 4.4 (when looking at ~/.nx/temp/sshlog) and centos 5 (the above error log), but these seem really minor (--kbtype and --link). a mystery. maybe I'm just destined to be a vnc user :-). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070426/0cfa3d69/attachment-0005.html>