At 09:33 PM 11/16/2014, you wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:59 PM, david <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a way to access a GUI desktop on a Centos 7 server from a
> Windows client. I have tried:
> - X2go from EPEL (fails immediately, apparently they are working on a
> solution, but...)
X2go works, just not with Gnome3. Use KDE or MATE from epel. Also,
there was a bug in a recent x2goserver package that would fail if you
didn't have the x2goserver-xsession package installed. The fix for
that was done but I don't know if it ever got out of epel-testing.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
Thanks, Les, for that detail. I knew that x2go had a known bug, but
didn't know the name of the missing package. I explicitly installed
it, but I still get failure asking for the MATE desktop. To
summarize, my client shows the X2go screen, then it goes away. On
the server, I see in /var/log/messages, a sequence such as:
------------------------
Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd: Created slice user-1000.slice.
Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd: Starting Session 4 of user UUUUU.
Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd: Started Session 4 of user UUUUU.
Nov 17 08:58:07 goat systemd-logind: New session 4 of user UUUUU.
Nov 17 08:58:11 goat /usr/bin/x2gostartagent: successfully started
X2Go agent session with ID UUUUU-50-1416243489_stDMATE
_dp32
Nov 17 08:58:15 goat kernel: fuse init (API version 7.22)
Nov 17 08:58:15 goat systemd: Mounting FUSE Control File System...
Nov 17 08:58:15 goat systemd: Mounted FUSE Control File System.
Nov 17 08:58:15 goat /usr/bin/x2gosetkeyboard: Setting X keyboard
according to /home/UUUUU/.x2go/C-UUUUU-50-1416243489_stD
MATE_dp32/keyboard
Nov 17 08:58:16 goat /usr/bin/x2goruncommand: launching session with
Xsession-x2go mechanism, using STARTUP="mate-sessio
n"
Nov 17 08:58:16 goat /usr/bin/x2gomountdirs[3210]: successfully
mounted VVVVV@127.0.0.1:30005/cygdrive/C/Users/VVVVV/X2GO~
1/S-743F~1/spool to /tmp/.x2go-UUUUU/spool/C-UUUUU-50-1416243489_stDMATE_dp32
Nov 17 08:58:18 goat /usr/bin/x2goumount-session[3574]: successfully
unmounted "/tmp/.x2go-UUUUU/spool/C-UUUUU-50-14162434
89_stDMATE_dp32"
Nov 17 08:58:28 goat systemd-logind: Removed session 4.
-------------------------
In the above, UUUUU is the user name on Centos 7, and VVVVV is the
name on Windows, as evidenced by the reference to 'cygdrive'.
---
In response to others that suggested VNC, I used to use it, but was
disappointed with the speed when used remotely. On an internal LAN
connect, it worked fine, but otherwise it became painful to use. NX
became my next choice for Centos 6, but the x2go package became my
favorite because of the ease of installation -- (nx needed lots of
other things at setup, and appears unavailable for C7).
David
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