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Hi there! |
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I'm using various versions of NX to access remote servers. Normally I |
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use FreeNX, but sometimes NX from nomachine.org, and I also gave Neatx a |
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try, depending on which OS I am using - I do this with Gentoo, Fedora, |
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Ubuntu and openSUSE. This does not work too well. For example, I |
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regularly have to issue a 'nxserver --cleanup' to kill existing sessions |
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in order to be able to log in again. There are servers where I could not |
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log in with NX at all, although it used to work a while ago. Sometimes I |
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only have to try the login for several times, and suddenly it works if I |
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am lucky. |
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Sometimes I have no success at all, then I try another product. On |
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Gentoo, FreeNX seemed to work somehow, but only if I keep my session - |
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when I close the initial application (xterm), I have to clean the |
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session before I can log in again. Resuming works okay though. |
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And now I just setup a new Gentoo machine, and FreeNX does not work at |
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all - I can connect, the session seems to start, but no window opens. |
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As FreeNX seems to be dead, I thought I'd give x2go a try. Did anyone |
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have sucess with this? I don't even find proper documentation on how to |
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actually use it. According to [1], the Gentoo documentation is [2]. The |
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last comments state that there is no /etc/init.d/x2goserver script to |
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start the server. Looks like a bug to me, but maybe it is not needed at all? |
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What are these various x2go* commands for? Even the x2go wiki [3] does |
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not document the x2goserver* commands. |
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When I try to connect, I get this error message: |
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Verbindung fehlgeschlagen weird: Unable to connect: |
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/home/wonko/.x2go/ssh/socaskpass-Ds5896 Unable to connect: |
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/home/wonko/.x2go/ssh/socaskpass-Ds5896 Unable to connect: |
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/home/wonko/.x2go/ssh/socaskpass-Ds5896 Permission denied |
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(publickey,keyboard-interactive). |
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Then I specify my DSA key, I still have to enter my password, but I do |
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not get the error message. And that's it, syslog says x2gopgwrapper has |
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no tty present and no askpass programm was specified. I guess it wants |
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my SSH passphrase then. |
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Does it actually work for anyone? Does someone have pointers to a howto? |
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Is it actually worth to invest time here, or is x2go just not ready yet? |
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What would be the best solution? What do you prefer? |
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[1] http://www.x2go.org/index.php?id=6 |
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[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249600 |
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[3] http://wiki.x2go.org/ |
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Wonko |
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