HOWTO: Install freenx

robostac · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 34

I'm not sure exactly what the nxsetup script did, but after that was run, it worked, and before it was run it didn't.

skobar · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 7

I've seen, that the /usr/NX directory was not owned by user nx, so he was not able to write files there. After doing a

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

I tried following the manual instruction and the ebuild in this thread and the ebuild in portage and get the "can't authenticate" error.

Dr_Smack · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

I tried the ebuilds first, but I kept getting the authentication error, so I unmerged all the nx stuff and did the manual install. I can connect; I get a message box stating there was a problem with the cache (because I've never connected before, so that's fine), but I don't get anything after that. I just get a balck screen. If I cat my session file in my .nx directory it has this error:

sphantom · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 72

Ok, well i umerged, rm -rf'd, and then remerged the portage nxserver-freenx package. It still had the authentication error, but this was indeed fixed by a 'chown -R nx:root /usr/NX', so the ebuild should probably be modified to change the permissions of the entire /usr/NX, not just a few of its subdirectories.

However, now i get a connection timeout. with no details offered..

[UPDATE]: not sure what i did (if anything), but now I "authenticate" fine initially, get a session list, but it dies when i create a new session, with..... wait for it....... an authentication error... (wierd considering im already authenticated)
[UPDATE2]: well, somehow the permissions got messed up again, once i fixed them, all authentication started working and it works fine from a knoppix laptop, but not when i test it locally.. I get the same "undefined command: bye" error that others are getting.

We're ALMOST there.. I think people should be working on testing the portage ebuilds, rather than manually installing, but thats just an opinion..

-sp

Dr_Smack · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

Ok. I tried removing all the ebuilds and reinstalling using the manual method again. I have also double checked the permissions.

I still get the exact same error:

NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 3836
NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.168.1 on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
NX> 204 Authentication failed.

I can login fine with SSH. I thought I would give it a go trying to login via nxclient from the local machine.

That doesn't work either. I get this error:

nxclient: cannot connect to X server

Any suggestions?

Shadowfiend · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Georgia, US

I've gotten past the initial authentication error (this is someone connecting from an outside Windows machine to my computer running freenx server from portage), but now this comes up:

nuance9 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Sep 2002 Posts: 85

It's working for me.

I erased everything I had done and unmerged everything.

I installed the ebuild using:

odborg · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 4:36 am Post subject:

in addition to the above, I had to do:

sphantom · n00b Joined: 16 Jul 2003 Posts: 72

hopfe · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 8:11 am Post subject:

I've installed the server and add a user, but when i try to connect i get the error "Error: undefined command: 'bye'".
My problem is that i doesn't have a node.conf in /usr/NX/etc

djmaze · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 10:37 am Post subject:

odborg · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:19 am Post subject:

djmaze · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

This works for me with client and server on the same machine. Seems like nxserver-freenx doesn't really need the 1.4.0 versions!

So, just try to downgrade..

odborg · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:24 pm Post subject:

i now get the following after authetication completed:

odborg · Posted: Thu Sep 02, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

appears this was because i was running nxclient as root (must a security feature)

as a normal user i now have no problems (yay

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Shadowfiend · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Georgia, US

elykyllek · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:49 am Post subject: sessionId error

Shadowfiend how did you get past your above error?

Shadowfiend · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 11 Location: Georgia, US

Yes I did. I did it by following, step by step, the things that nuance9 said, and then doing what odborg said ( chmod u+x /usr/NX/var/db/* ). That last step may be all that you need to do. Otherwise, start from scratch. I unmerged everything and reemerged, and it worked.
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djmaze · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:24 am Post subject:

I figured out that these two commands will help in most cases:

kwok-gentoo · n00b Joined: 06 May 2004 Posts: 3

elykyllek · Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: working

Thanks for everyones help, finally got it working. Like everyone else though, suspending and resuming doesn't work, and the remote multimedia doesn't seem to work either. Thats to be expected though with such a alpha release.

Thanks again.

borchi · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 44

what is in /usr/NX/var/db/*? i don't have it.

elykyllek · Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 1:26 am Post subject: