[lug] Trying to get an NX connection

Hugh Brown hugh at math.byu.edu
Tue Aug 30 08:02:25 MDT 2005



On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Michael Hirsch wrote:

> I'm trying to setup an NX connection between me (NT) and a Linux system
> running CentOS 4 (RHEL 4 clone). I've got the nx and freenx rpms installed
> on the server. I've got the NX clinet for Windows on my desktop. I can't get
> through.
>
> Whatever I try, when I click the "Login" button on the client I get a
> "Setting up the X environment" wait box that never goes away.
>
> I can log in by hand as the nx user and see the nx logs indicate my
> connection, but when I use the client I never get any response at all from
> the server.
>


For debian and windows, I only had to make sure and put the ssh key from
freenx into the right place on the windows side.

Which version of freenx and nxclient do you have?

Hugh



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