[lug] Trying to get an NX connection

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Hugh Brown wrote:

>
> > I did copy the id from the server into the windows client, so I think I'm
> > okay there.
> >
> > On the Linux, server side:
> > nx-1.5.0-0.centos4
> > freenx-0.4.4-1.centos4
> >
> > The Windows client is 1.5.1-103
> >
> > The only way I've goten it to work so far is with KNoppix. The latest
> > Knoppix DVD has an NX server on it. I ran it and entered a password, then
> > could log in from a linux nx client.
> >
> > --Michael
> >
>
> Are the 1.5 nx client and freenx 0.4.4 server compatible?
> I know they recently rev'ed the commercial stuff from 1.4 to 1.5 but
> finding useful info on the nomachine site is painful (e.g. like the
> changelog from 1.4 to 1.5 or release notes for 1.5).
>
> When you log in as the nx user, do you get the nxserver prompt?
>
> On the commercial nx server, you have to either set up users within nx or
> you have to configure it to use pam.  I've used freenx successfully at
> home, but I can't remember what I did to configure it.
>
> Hugh


In the nxserver script, you can choose how you want to set up user
authentication:

# This adds PAM to the possible authentification methods
ENABLE_PAM_AUTHENTICATION="1"
# 0 = all users can login, 1 = only added users can login
ENABLE_USER_DB="0"
# When set to 0, auth using internal password database is completely
disabled
ENABLE_PASSDB_AUTHENTICATION="1"


This is how I have it set up currently (I'm also running 1.4.0).

Hugh