[ec2-beta] RDP Login

[Rick Clark]

Chuck, 
Do you have a better way to do this? i.e different package?  I would prefer for 
us to have a supported method that integrates cleanly, this feels hackish.   I 
think people want RDP access as a feature,not just a work-around for one 
implementation.

On Friday 27 February 2009 10:40:24 am Chuck Short wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> The nomachine client uses straight authentication in order to use it. So
> this is what I had to do on my instance:
>
> 1. In the /etc/ssh/sshd_config modify the "PasswordAuthentication" and
> set it to yes.
> 2. Restart sshd by doing sudo /etc/init.d/ssh restart
> 3. Choose an approiate password for the ubuntu user by running the
> following command (sudo passwd ubuntu)
>     or you could create another user.
> 4. After that you should be able to use the NX client again.
>
> If you have any questions please let me know.
>
> Regards
> chuck
>
> Andy Barlow [Deftex] wrote:
> > 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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Rick Clark
Engineering Manager, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd.
rick.clark at canonical.com


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