NX under CentOS on Vps

[Rune]

Does anyone have freenx installed and working on their CentOs vps?

Try as I might I can't get it working ... and even managed to block my own ssh access at one point!

Did the yum groupinstall "FreeNX and NX" thing

Copied node.conf.sample to node.conf

Ran nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge

Also added users with nxserver --adduser and nxserver --passwd


The error message I'm getting when I try to login is: The nx service is not available or the nx access was disabled on host [ip address]


There was a message about not being able to unlock the nx user password when setting it up, I did this manually with passwd -f -u nx

Didn't make any difference


If anyone has nx runnning I'd be interested to know the steps they took

[Rune]

A development

Removed everything I could find related to nx ... every darned file

Threw up some errors on being unable to create some files on re-install, created the folders those files were meant to go in myself and tried again

Installed without a hitch

Ran nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key [without the --clean and --purge]

Copied the sample conf to node.conf and fired up freenx-server


Now I can connect as root ... but as any other user, there's a user I've set up that I can ssh in with, but nx for that user fails

Here's the error message:


There was an error setting up inter-process communications for kde. The message returned by the system was

Authentication rejected, reason: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

Please check the the dcopserver program is running



If the authentication protocol being used is supported as root, why wouldn't it be for other users?

Some kind of permissions issue? But permissions on what?

Could it be something like only root being able to use the nomachine key for some reason?

[Rune]

Got past that by sshing in as the user I'm trying to get nx working for, using su and then running nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key

Now though I have another error

Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation

So I've now got a user other than root able to authenticate ... but unable to start kde

[Rune]

Looks like I have 2 options

1 Try nomachine's free version

or

2 Give up