HOWTO: Install freenx

rac · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject:

Moving from DT&T at request of stuherbert.
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sonofzeus · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 38

i'm getting this while trying to emerge:

stuherbert · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 7:47 pm Post subject:

Please please please remember that

a) FreeNX is beta software. Fabian is kindly looking into the bugs as we find them, but for now please accept that the software isn't perfect.
b) FreeNX is built on top of beta software - the v1.4 NX libraries from NoMachine.com.
c) NX 1.4's suspend / resume functionality isn't equivalent to what you can do with Terminal Services / Remote Desktop on Windows. Any apps open in suspended sessions stop running until the session is resumed.
d) FreeNX is currently package masked in Portage. We do that when packages have unresolved security issues, and/or when they don't work.

The new PAM authentication support doesn't work yet. I'm looking into why. For the moment, you need to

nxserver --useradd <user>
nxserver --passwd <user>

so that you can login.

Look at http://www.nomachine.com/documentation/admin-guide.php if you need documentation on how to use NX / FreeNX.

Best regards,
Stu
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StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

jd5419 · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:21 pm Post subject:

I agree but without anyone to test, ask questions there wont be any problems to fix because no one will use it. when i updated the nx-x11 to 1.4.0-r1 everything broke and i was getting proxy and nxnode problems and i cannot down grade i treid to change it in package.keywords but it wont let me go back to 1.4.0 and this is making me rather sad because it no longer works. i understand about the session stuff and i think this is working rather well. i've been learning so much from this playing with the actual nxserver executable.

stuherbert · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:29 pm Post subject:

stuherbert · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject:

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jd5419 · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 9:44 pm Post subject:

I know its hyped yet i seemed to have found that my trying to get this to go was not meant to be? i misread/understood earlier posts. i just got home i'll see whats going on :-D

i didnt mean to unmask anything btw i wanted to use earlier version :-D

Error: Cannot load symbols from NX library 'libXcomp.so.1.4.0'. Error is '0²/NX/lib/libXcomp.so.1.4.0: undefined symbol: NXBind'.

i got this clientside after clickikng details, is this my computer's client doing this or is it server?

stuherbert · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:03 pm Post subject:

stuherbert · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:11 pm Post subject:

For those looking for nxsetup ...

My ebuilds do not install nxsetup, because the ebuilds do the work that nxsetup is there to do.

If you really want to run nxsetup by hand, you can find it in the freenx tarball in your DISTFILES directory. However, don't forget that Portage can't track files created by nxsetup - so when you run it, you're adding clutter to your machine.

Best regards,
Stu
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jd5419 · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:21 pm Post subject:

jd5419 · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:25 pm Post subject:

on my windows client it autherizes and is on negotiating link parameters when it times out... and on my linux box's client it says session he04 failed, and is still blabbing about the symbles problem.

i just realized i had 1.4.0 for a client on my machine *oops* and i put that back down to 1.3.2 and now it is reporting proxy not found. please check configuration whats this all about?

jd5419 · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:11 pm Post subject:

on my server,
he04 / # nxproxy
Error: Cannot open NX transport library 'libXcomp.so.1.4.0'. Error is 'libXcomp.so.1.4.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'.

whats this asbout

howabout:

he04 lib # nxdesktop
nxdesktop: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/NX/lib/libXcompext.so.1: undefined symbol: _NXEnableCleanGet
he04 lib #

these normal?

StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

jd5419 · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:03 am Post subject:

i went from it working to not working at all with all kinds of errors ::searches for the .1 i had and wonders why it isnt working

:: i'm getting all sorts of errors and help is appreachated :-D

WhimpyPeon · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:43 am Post subject:

I've tried about everthing on getting this to work. After several failed attempts I emerge -C'd all the NX ebuilds. I deleted any left over NX stuff and removed the nx user from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.

I then emerged the newest nxserver 0.2.1 which also installed all the client stuff. I tried without adding a user (nxserver --adduser) and with adding a user. I wasn't able to do the nxserver --passwd because it appears to be depriciated.

From the client I get the following error:

NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 3182
NX> 200 Connected to address: 127.0.0.1 on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
NX> 204 Authentication failed.

I also get the following from my sshd log:

Sep 8 20:39:57 [sshd] User nx not allowed because account is locked
Sep 8 20:39:57 [sshd] Failed none for invalid user nx from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 port 32813 ssh2

Is there something in sshd_config that I should be allowing? Or is this another problem that somebody is aware of?

Thanks for your help.

jd5419 · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:45 am Post subject:

i had this problem and i resolved it but i cant remember how it was somthing to do with passwd -u nx or somthing :-\

WhimpyPeon · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:04 am Post subject:

Thanks! That got rid of the ssh error, but I am still getting this from the nxclient:

NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 8616
NX> 200 Connected to address: 127.0.0.1 on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
NX> 204 Authentication failed.

Previous posts suggested changing security settings on files/directories, but I got the impression the new ebuilds would take care of that?

jd5419 · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 2:44 am Post subject:

what version have you install? 0.2 or 0.2.1 or 0.1

WhimpyPeon · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:13 am Post subject:

I have 0.2.1. There appeared to be a problem with the permissions on /etc/ssh/sshd_conf.

I gave others read permission and I got pretty far, but now I get:

Error: Cannot open NX transport library 'libXcomp.so.1.4.0'. Error is 'libXcomp.so.1.4.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'.

I tried the manual install and probably got that set into my system, but I haven't figured out how to get it out.

Looks like me and you are at the same spot jd.

sonofzeus · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 38

sonofzeus · n00b Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 38

Interesting, while i was about to start getting and compiling the other libs I had left open a session with that black screen and i notiiced that all of a sudden it began to open my gnome session!!

it seems it takes a very long time to actually start the session... any clues as to why this happens??

skobar · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

hmm, still no success on my side. :cry:

This time a problem with nxviewer/nxdesktop. The libXcompext seems to have a linking error:

buZz.nl · n00b Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Posts: 27

I keep getting kicked out

it seems that the entire login goes ok , but when it gets to authenticating the user i have on the local machine , it says 'authentication failed for user buzz'

any ideas?

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