FreeNX Persistent Client Error

[Eric Tanguy]

Le vendredi 09 septembre 2005 à 21:46 -0400, Bob Hartung a écrit :
> Hi all,
>    I am new to FreeNX.
>    My setup is as follows:
>      Server:  FC4 with FreeNX installed
> 		freenx-0.4.4-1.fdr.0.noarch.rpm
> 		nx-1.5.0-0.FC4.1.i386.rpm
>      Client:  FC3 with nxclient-1.5.0-106.i386.rpm
> 
>    On server I have username "nxuser"
>      I have run '/usr/bin/nxserver --useradd nxuser'
>      I can list users etc.
>      I have imported client.id_dsa.key into my client
> 
>    On the client when I try to connect I receive the error:
> 	Server not installed or NX access disabled.
>    I receive the same error when trying to log into
> testdrive.nomachine.com with newly issued password/username
> 
>    I check the fedora site and believe ssh is set up okay except when I
> try to issue the command as nxuser:
>        ssh nx@{xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx}
> I consistently receive the error:
>        ssh: {xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx}: Name or service not known
> 
> I can ssh as nxuser from the client FC3 machine into the server FC4
> machine although it takes about 20 seconds to authenticate and ask for
> password.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction to begin solving this problem?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Bob Hartung
> 
> 
Hi Bob
Take a look at /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd and see if you see either a
"#" or a "!!"

or you can check using

passwd -S nx

to unlock 
passwd -u nx

and man passwd

another good point is
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/


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<eric.tanguy at univ-nantes.fr>
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