On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/18/10 6:08 PM, Raymond Jender wrote: >> I am pulling my hair out here folks...... >> I am running CentOS 5.5 in command line only. Reason being I am standing up an >> IDS system on it. >> I have installed the NX client/node and server pkgs. I have installed the NX >> client for windows on a Vista box. When I attemtp to connect from the Vista to >> CentOS, I get this: >> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 22080 >> 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: 192.168.1.70 on port: 22 >> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx >> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey >> NX> 204 Authentication failed. >> Now I have been googling and re-googling. Plenty of people have had the same >> issue, but I have yet to find a solution that works for me. Funny that most of >> the stuff I'm finding on google is 4-5 years old! I'm sure I am probably missing >> something so simple I will puke! >> I think I read that someone did an install and it worked right out of the box!! > NX authenticates as the nx user via ssh keys to get an encrypted connection to > pass the real user credentials over. The commercial NX server always uses the > same key as the client, but freenx (at least as packaged in epel or > centos-testing) generates a unique key per install. So you have to get the > contents from /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key into the client config for each > target host. You can do this by copying the file with winscp and importing it > with the NX client gui Click the 'configure', then the 'key' buttons to get to > the right place. Or you can use putty, cat the file to get the text on the > screen and copy/paste it into the dialog box, replacing what is there - keeping > the ---begin and ---end lines. The OP asked this question on CentOS forums: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=28137&forum=40 I referred him to the CentOS wiki at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX Then it turnes out he is using NX from Nomachine. There are differences between the Nomachine version and CentOS' nx/freenx as you pointed out. >> I'd really like to see a CentOS - NX configuration guide but couldn't find one. >> Can someone just tell me how this should be configured....what changes do I need to >> make and to what config files? > > It should come up working - but you can copy the node.conf.sample to node.conf > and edit it and/or run /usr/bin/nxsetup again if you want to change any options. FYI, the latest version of freenx 0.7.3-5.el5.centos installs node.conf as a result of this bug tracker: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4408 Akemi / toracat