NoMachine NX Server Installation: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 04:34, 20 October 2011

Introduction

The purpose of this article is help the user quickly get NX Server installed on a Slackware machine. The installation will use the compressed tar packages (version 3.5.X.TAR.GZ) from http://www.nomachine.com. The tutorial only applies to NoMachine's NX server implementation (free edition) and does not apply to Freenx. Instructions for installing Freenx can be found here.

What is NX?

An introduction to NX can be found at http://www.nomachine.com/documents/getting-started.php

Slackware Requirements

According to NoMachine, there are three required packages for a working installation on Linux.

nxclient
nxnode
nxserver

A working sshd installation must already be running on the server and configured properly. The client machine must be able to connect to the server via ssh.

Changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config =

Comment out #AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys so that the sshd daemon configuration is configured to look for an authorized key file named .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2.

NX Installation

The following steps must be performed with root priviledges.

Obtain the nxserver, nxnode, and nxclient (compressed tar) packages from http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linux&id=1.
Change to the /usr directory.
# cd /usr
Extract each of the three packages.
# tar zxvf nxclient-3.5.X.tar.gz
# tar zxvf nxnode-3.5.X.tar.gz
# tar zxvf nxserver-3.5.X.tar.gz
Create some required directories in /etc/init.d/
# mkdir /etc/init.d/rc{0,2,3,5,6}.d
Run the installation scripts
# /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxnode --install suse
# /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver --install suse

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 == Introduction ==
-The purpose of this article is help the user quickly get an NX server up and running on a Slackware machine. The instructions only apply to NoMachine's NX server implementation and does not apply to Freenx server. Instructions for installing a Freenx server can be found here.
+The purpose of this article is help the user quickly get NX Server installed on a Slackware machine. The installation will use the compressed tar packages (version 3.5.X.TAR.GZ) from http://www.nomachine.com. The tutorial only applies to NoMachine's NX server implementation (free edition) and does not apply to Freenx. Instructions for installing Freenx can be found here.
 == What is NX? ==
 An introduction to NX can be found at http://www.nomachine.com/documents/getting-started.php
+== Slackware Requirements ==
+According to NoMachine, there are three required packages for a working installation on Linux.
+* nxclient
+* nxnode
+* nxserver
-NX
+A working sshd installation must already be running on the server and configured properly. ''The client machine must be able to connect to the server via ssh.''
-Requirements
-Obtain
+== Changes to /etc/ssh/sshd_config ===
-Extract
+Comment out #AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys so that the sshd daemon configuration is configured to look for an authorized key file named .ssh/authorized_keys and .ssh/authorized_keys2.
-Installation
-Connect
+== NX Installation ==
+The following steps must be performed with root priviledges.
+# Obtain the nxserver, nxnode, and nxclient (compressed tar) packages from http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linux&id=1.
+# Change to the /usr directory.<blockquote># cd /usr</blockquote>
+# Extract each of the three packages.<blockquote># tar zxvf nxclient-3.5.X.tar.gz</blockquote><blockquote># tar zxvf nxnode-3.5.X.tar.gz</blockquote><blockquote># tar zxvf nxserver-3.5.X.tar.gz</blockquote>
+# Create some required directories in /etc/init.d/<blockquote># mkdir /etc/init.d/rc{0,2,3,5,6}.d</blockquote>
+# Run the installation scripts <blockquote># /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxnode --install suse</blockquote><blockquote># /usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver --install suse</blockquote>