Freenx

john bray jmblin at comcast.net
Tue Feb 15 07:54:58 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 06:32 +0100, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> Le mardi 15 février 2005 à 00:29 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana a écrit :
> > On 14 Feb 2005, at 22:48, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone achieve to have freenx running fine on fc3? I got the sources
> > > from http://homepage.mac.com/felipe_alfaro/FileSharing10.html  and made
> > > rpms without any problems. But when i want to connect from a windows
> > > client to my fc3 feenx server, i obtain :
> > > NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 2940
> > > NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
> > > NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
> > > NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.1.12 on port: 22
> > > NX> 205 The authenticity of host 'bureau (192.168.1.12)' can't be
> > > established.
> > > RSA key fingerprint is 86:7a:e2:c2:bb:fe:38:83:74:0e:b6:80:03:d0:43:81.
> > > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
> > > Warning: Permanently added 'bureau' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
> > > NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> > > NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> > > NX> 204 Authentication failed.
> > > Thanks
> > 
> > You will need to tell your NX windows client to use they private key 
> > that FreeNX created during installation. FreeNX creates a 
> > private/public key pair, and stores the private key into 
> > /var/lib/nxserver/nxhome/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key, and the public key 
> > into /var/lib/nxhome/.ssh/authorized_keys2.
> > 
> > You'll have to install the private key stored in 
> > /var/lib/nxserver/nxhome/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key into your Windows NX 
> > client. Don't have a clue on how to do this, but for the Linux NX 
> > client is as simple as copying that file into 
> > /usr/NX/share/client.id_dsa.key.
> > 
> > To check public key authentication works, I run the following command 
> > from the client machine:
> > 
> > # ssh -i /usr/NX/share/client.id_dsa.key nx at server
> > Last login: Fri Feb 11 20:35:35 2005 from 192.168.0.90
> > HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-02 OS_(GPL)
> > NX> 105 quit
> > quit
> > Quit
> > NX> 999 Bye
> > 
> I have only one linux machine : the server. So i tried to ssh from the
> server to the server using :
>  ssh -i /var/lib/nxserver/nxhome/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key nx at server
> but the system ask me a password.
> It seems to not take care of the pubkey.
> May be a problem in sshd config ?
> Thanks
> Eric
> 

hey eric.  check out rick stout's stuff on fedoranews:
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/

two articles.  one on freenx and the other on ssh issues.  both are well
done.  that's how i got freenx working.

HTH

john




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