[ec2-beta] RDP Login

[Chuck Short]

Hi,

So you login through NX with a non-ubuntu user and it works fine but not 
for the ubuntu user?


Regards
chuck

Sverre Nøkleby wrote:
> 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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