FreeNX

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 16:09:10

Has anyone here heard of FreeNX.. and tried it?. Heard its very fast. I wanted to try it, but having some difficulty installing it, as the core libraries are provided by NX, and have to install them first.

i3839 · 2005-06-09 16:22:31

The server is in AUR, and I think someone was busy with the client already (search the forum for it).

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 16:23:02

I searched in the community repo for NX.. couldnt find it.. what name is it by there?

i3839 · 2005-06-09 16:26:26

It isn't in community yet, and only the pkgbuild for the server is on AUR. So if you want to have that use makepkg to build the package yourself.

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 16:42:16

Thanks

cactus · 2005-06-09 17:29:47

or you get it from my repo, where it is already compiled (i worked on the package for it in aur)

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 18:52:51

I got FreeNX to install .. but I am having problems connection to it from my WindowsXP machine.
This is the error i get :

NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 2804
NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.0.105 on port: 22
NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
NX> 204 Authentication failed.

I tried looking for the error on google. All the places that I have looked at ..say that I need to copy the client.id_dsa.key into the share folder of the Windows client, which I already did, but doesnt seem to work.

Anybody have any ideas?.. I used http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=1&ID=733 this link to build and install the package.

cactus · 2005-06-09 19:27:17

try looking here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=12029

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 19:40:51

None of the links on the thread work..

I couldnt find an entry in AUR for your repo.. whats it called and how do I get to it?

Thanks
Hal

cactus · 2005-06-09 19:49:27

I fixed one of my links (pkgbuild path) and removed another (screenshot). The rest of the links worked fine for me.

http://e.solarblue.net/index.php/arch-repo/

ps. if you are having trouble reaching archive.kalyxo.org, read the section of that thread about it. I also added information as a comment to the package description section in the AUR for freenx.

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 20:05:28

Yup.. tried all the steps.. still cant make it to work.. spent all morning.. I know must be a small thing.. but cant figure it out.. will try later..

Thanks for all the help cactus.

Hal

cactus · 2005-06-09 20:12:31

no problem. I wish I could remember more of the steps. It has been a while since I installed it..and I have fiddle with tons of things since then...

halmcelroy · 2005-06-09 22:09:27

Finally got it to work!!!

Got help from this wiki:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_FreeNX_Server

Just did the steps outlined in the wiki regarding renaming of the key files and moving them around.. and the freenx server/client worked. And let me tell you.. this thing is definitely faster than any XServer that I have ever seen

Hal

cactus · 2005-06-09 22:55:28

yeah. make sure you set the connection speed to "56k", even if you have a better connection. At the lower setting, it turns on all the compression, and round-trip-reducing features.

And congrats on the perserverance. 8)

calexico · 2005-06-10 13:45:47

The new home of the freenx project is on berlios. Here is the link for the most up-to-date version of freenx :

http://download.berlios.de/freenx/freenx-0.4.0.tar.gz

cactus · 2005-06-10 18:21:59

looks like it is just a current version dump. The archive.kalyxo.org has considerably more files in it, and more up to date ones. I would venture that much of the work is still being done there.

Also, I could not find a project page on berlios. Is there one?

halmcelroy · 2005-06-10 19:02:37

I tried to add to wiki page for the FreeNX installation, but the page never got saved

cactus · 2005-06-10 19:20:43

Well, hopefully a new wiki system will be coming down the pipe in the future. The current wiki system is rather tempermental.

tpowa · 2005-08-19 11:58:41

freenx is now in testing, updated freenx wiki, hope you like the package
greetings
tpowa

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