[ec2-beta] RDP Login

[Sverre Nøkleby]

I installed NX on the "old" ubuntu image (beta 1), and it worked like
a dream. Today I set up a machine with Beta2 in EC2-europe, and I
cannot manage to log in using NX.

Are there any obvious changes that could trigger this? All I get from
the NX client is "authentication failed for user ubuntu". I also tried
creating a different user, and I can log in using normal SSH fine.

-Sverre

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Eric Hammond <ehammond at thinksome.com> wrote:
> Reuven:
>
> It is possible to install the desktop software on an Ubuntu EC2 instance
> and access it using remote desktop tools.
>
> The package I've found to be the most impressive from a performance
> perspective is NX from NoMachine.
>
>  http://www.nomachine.com/download.php
>
> Though it's not open source, they have a free server which allows up to
> two concurrent connections per instance and free clients for Linux, Mac,
> and Windows.
>
> I just ran through this process to make sure it works on the beta images
> and once again forgot I was not using my local computer as I was
> browsing the web.  It's that fast.
>
> That said, I agree with Rodney that you should try to administer servers
> without using a desktop.
>
> In my experience, an image with the desktop software installed can take
> 5-10 times as long to start up as a base server image.  Plus, once you
> learn the command line methods things become much easier to automate,
> saving you a lot of time down the road.
>
> --
> Eric Hammond
> ehammond at thinksome.com
>
>
>
> On Thursday 26 February 2009 13:24:20 Reuven Yagel wrote:
>> Is it possible to remote login with rdp (from a Windows client)?
>
>
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