Installing NX on Ubuntu and Windows XP

[Todd Slater]

On 8/21/06, Leo Noordhuizen <leo.noordhuizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> A question about installing and usage of NX.
>
> I installed NXserver on the latest version Ubuntu, and installed NX client
> on a Windows XP system. With the thinking of wanting have a working system
> and after that tightening security if necessary, I used all defaults when
> installing.
>
> BUT.... No luck.
>
> (I want to be able to completely take over my Linux system via the XP
> system.)
>
> The logfile looks as follows:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 5020
> NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
> NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
> NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
> NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.2.162 on port: 22
> NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx
> NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey
> HELLO NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-45-SVN OS (GPL)
> NX> 105 hello NXCLIENT - Version 1.4.0
> NX> 134 Accepted protocol: 1.4.0
> NX> 105 SET SHELL_MODE SHELL
> NX> 105 SET AUTH_MODE PASSWORD
> NX> 105 login
> NX> 101 User: lcn
> NX> 102 Password:
> NX> 103 Welcome to: ubulcn user: lcn
> NX> 105 listsession --user="lcn" --status="suspended,running"
> --geometry="1280x1024x32+render" --type="unix-kde"
> NX> 127 Sessions list of user 'lcn' for reconnect:
>
>  Display Type             Session ID                       Options  Depth
> Screen         Status      Session Name
> ------- ---------------- --------------------------------
> -------- ----- -------------- ----------- ------------------------------
>
>
> NX> 148 Server capacity: not reached for user: lcn
> NX> 105 startsession  --link="lan" --backingstore="1" --nodelay="1"
> --encryption="1" --cache="8M" --images="32M" --media="0"
> --imagecompressionmethod="-1" --imagecompressionlevel="-1" --render="1"
> --session="Ubuntu" --type="unix-kde" --cookie="******"
> --geometry="fullscreen" --kbtype="pc102/en_US"
> --screeninfo="1280x994x32+render"
>
> Permission denied (publickey,password).
> Killed by signal 15.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I would be very happy if somebody could point me in the right direction how
> to solve this.

Did you install the key on the client? Also, I had problems with the
most recent NoMachine client; I had to go back to a previous version,
but I never bothered to figure out what the problem was.

Todd