On Thursday 26 April 2007 4:59:33 pm Jeremy Gray wrote: > On 4/26/07, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 4/26/07, Jeremy Gray <jrgray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > However, I note that at http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX is says that > > > > freenx > > > > > only works with centos 4, which I am hoping is simply out of date, as > > > > freenx > > > > > is shipped as part of centos 5. I saw a post today saying that freenx > > > is supposed to work exactly the same on CentOS 5 as per instructions > > > for 4. hmmm. I've tried uninstalling freenx on the centOS 5 machine and > > > reinstalling. > > > > > > any suggestions appreciated! many thanks, > > > > I wish I could say something useful to you. I followed the > > instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/FreeNX and all is fine on > > CentOS 5. > > > > All I did on the server mchine was to 'run yum install nx freenx' and > > nothing else. It creates user "nx" on the server. For the client, > > again, I followed the procedure exactly as shown on the wiki page, > > nothing extra. > > thanks for the encouragement, Akemi! > > here's slightly more info. I just tried nmap'ing the two machines ("nmap -p > 1-65535 localhost"). the centos 4.4 machine has two open ports when I have > an active nx connection: port 22/tcp for ssh, and port 7000/tcp for > "afs3-fileserver". on the centos 5 machine, I have port 22/tcp open for ssh > but nothing else is open, nor does something pop open when the nxclient > authenticates. AFAIK, nx only needs ssh. Could the problem be that the CentOS 5 box is not allowing X11 forwarding over ssh? check your /etc/ssh/sshd_config file for 'X11Forwarding yes' HTH, Tim
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