FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:52:17 -0500, David Trask wrote
> "Jim Kronebusch" <jim at winonacotter.org> writes:
> >Does anyone have a good tutorial or link to instructions to getting
> >FreeNX working with
> >Edubuntu?  I have my thin clients at the school authenticating with
> >OpenLDAP, but I
> >would like to provide students a secure and relatively fast way to
> >connect to their
> >school desktop from home.  FreeNX seems like it would probably be the
> >best solution. 
> >But from any tutorials I read it looks like you need to set up users
> >separately for
> >FreeNX.  I really want something that they can use to see the identical
> >desktop they see
> >at school, from home.
> 
> Jim....keep me in the loop on this too....I'm curious

Well, I got this working yesterday......surprisingly easy.  I'll quickly list the steps
I went through.

Server:
1. Open a terminal.  Then add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

# Install FreeNX
deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx
deb-src http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx

2. Next run the following command "wget http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/seveas.gpg" to
download the GPG key from Seveas.

3. Then "sudo apt-key add seveas.gpg" to install the GPG key.

4. Now update the APT repository with "sudo apt-get update" and run "sudo apt-get
install freenx"

Client:
1. Open a terminal.  Then add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list

# Install FreeNX
deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx
deb-src http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx

2. Next run the following command "wget http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/seveas.gpg" to
download the GPG key from Seveas.

3. Then "sudo apt-key add seveas.gpg" to install the GPG key.

4. Now update the APT repository with "sudo apt-get update" and run "sudo apt-get
install nxclient"

You're finished.  Open your new client and plug in the settings.  There really was no
other setup.  I thought when I messed with this in the past things were more
complicated.  For reference, I'm running Edubuntu Feisty 7.04 with LDM_DIRECTX enabled.
 I have not tried this with any other version, or with encryption enabled.

Jim

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