[ec2-beta] RDP Login

[Andy Barlow [Deftex]]

Chuck

I had the same issue as Sverre.

I created a user specifically for remote desktop access, but was  
unable to get through with the NX client.

As Sverre says, it IS possible to SSH to that user, but not to  
establish an NX session.

All you get is "authentication failed for user <x>" where x is the  
user you've created.

Hope this helps.

Currently I've gone back to the previous beta for this reason.

Regards,
Andy Barlow

On 27 Feb 2009, at 15:25, Chuck Short wrote:

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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