[ec2-beta] RDP Login

[Sverre Nøkleby]

Hi Chuck,

following your instructions and changing the ssh authentication worked
like a charm. I can now connect to my instance using nomachine.

Thanks,

Sverre.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Chuck Short <chuck.short at canonical.com> 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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