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Of interest to me was specifying the port that the system's sshd listens on. If you run your sshd on a non-standard port (i.e. not 22), then uncomment the line: | Of interest to me was specifying the port that the system's sshd listens on. If you run your sshd on a non-standard port (i.e. not 22), then uncomment the line: | ||
#SSHD_PORT=22 | #SSHD_PORT=22 | ||
and replace 22 with whatever | and replace 22 with whatever your port number is. | ||
If you're a bit paranoid with your security settings in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (like I am), make sure you add the user nx to AllowUsers, otherwise the client you choose will fail to connect to your ssh daemon. | If you're a bit paranoid with your security settings in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (like I am), make sure you add the user nx to AllowUsers, otherwise the client you choose will fail to connect to your ssh daemon. | ||
Revision as of 17:04, 13 August 2009
Getting FreeNX working on Slackware (12.2 as of writing).
Build it
Get Eric Hameleers' build script:
wget -np -r http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/freenx/build/cd connie.slackware.com/\~alien/slackbuilds/freenx/build/
Build nx and freenx:
./nx.SlackBuild && ./freenx.SlackBuild --cleanup
Install the resultant packages:
installpkg /tmp/{nx-3.3.0-i486-1alien,freenx-0.7.3-i486-2alien}.tgz
The installer runs the initial configuration (including adding a new user "nx" to the system).
Configure it
The main config file is /etc/nxserver/node.conf. The comments are helpful, so read them.
Of interest to me was specifying the port that the system's sshd listens on. If you run your sshd on a non-standard port (i.e. not 22), then uncomment the line:
#SSHD_PORT=22
and replace 22 with whatever your port number is.
If you're a bit paranoid with your security settings in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (like I am), make sure you add the user nx to AllowUsers, otherwise the client you choose will fail to connect to your ssh daemon.
If you've made changes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, then restart sshd. This is the command I use when I'm logged in remotely and I need to restart sshd:
/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd stop; sleep 5; /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd start
Run it
Check to see if the server is running (it was after my installation, but your mileage may vary):
nxserver --status
If you see:
root@darkstar:~# nxserver --status NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 3.2.0-73 OS (GPL, using backend: 3.3.0) NX> 110 NX Server is running NX> 999 Bye
you're good to go. Otherwise, run:
nxserver --restart
Connect to it
http://en.opensuse.org/FreeNX_Server_HOWTO lists a number of clients able to connect to a (free)nx server. Since my main interest was in accessing my Linux box at home from my Windows box at work, I used the NoMachine client for Windows.