[CentOS] FreeNX Shadowed Desktop issue

Fri Nov 14 13:09:36 UTC 2008
James Blackburn <jamesblackburn at gmail.com>

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone will be able to offer some advice on desktop
shadowing with the latest CentOS 4's FreeNX.

I've installed the latest FreeNX RPMs as described on the wiki:
[james at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa |grep nx
nxclient-3.2.0-9
freenx-0.7.3-1.el4.centos
nx-3.2.0-8.el4.centos

And I can NX in using two separate test user accounts.

However when I try to enable shadowing I encounter two problems:
1) The shadow selection dialog doesn't show usernames (the column is
simply blank).  The result is that you need to know the display number
in advance.
2) On choosing a display, I get an error connecting (and an
authentication request is never shown on the display being shadowed).

I can work around 2 by first doing 'xhost +' on the display which is
about to be shadowed.  But this isn't ideal...

Any ideas / tips / pointers to more documentation appreciated!

Cheers,

James

NXlog attached containing: 1 session created, followed by attempt to
shadow from another user account.
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