How to setup FreeNX server under Debian Sarge!
Hi All,
Everyone (osnews, slashdot, etc) keep talking about FreeNX FreeNX FreeNX
and about how great it is, I had to try it!
After doing some research, looking into how this was done, I did not find
any recent documents describing how to set up the latest version in Debian
Sarge.
Setup:
1) Server = Debian Sarge Testing (03/22/05)
2) Client = Windows XP SP2
Here is what worked for me:
How to setup FreeNX using Debian Sarge:
1. Download this package for Linux and the server.
http://www.nomachine.com/download/nxserver-personal/1.4.0/Linux-Static-Tar/nxserver-1.4.0-107.i386.tar.gz
2. Download this package for Windows.
http://www.nomachine.com/download/nxclient/1.4.0/Windows/nxclient-1.4.0-92.exe
3. Download this package as it has the scripts required to use the libraries.
http://download.berlios.de/freenx/freenx-0.3.1.tar.gz
4. Login as root and execute the following commands.
tar zxvf xserver-1.4.0-107.i386.tar.gz
mv NX /usr
5. Then setup the freenx scripts.
tar zxvf freenx-0.3.1.tar.gz
cd freenx-0.3.1
patch -p0 < *diff
chown root:root *
cp node.conf.sample /usr/NX/etc/node.conf
cp nxkeygen nxnode nxnode-login nxserver nxsetup nxloadconfig /usr/NX/bin/
6. Now setup the server.
cd /usr/NX/bin
./nxsetup --install
7. The installer has a bug, so fix it.
chmod 640 /usr/NX/home/nx/.ssh/authorized_keys2
8. Copy the client.id_dsa.key file from UNIX to your Windows client.
Copy /usr/NX/home/nx/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key to C:\Program Files\NX Client for Windows\share
9. Install the appropriate libraries for Debian.
apt-get install libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
10. Install rpm.
apt-get install rpm.
11. Download the RPM as it has a library that is not included with the rest of the distribution.
ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/suse/suse/i386/supplementary/X/NX/NX-1.4.0-12.1.i586.rpm
12. Decompress the rpm.
rpm2cpio NX*rpm > cpio-archive
cpio -d -i < cpio-archive
13. From the directory you decompressed the archvie in, copy the missing library from here to /usr/NX/lib.
cp usr/NX/lib/libXcomp.* /usr/NX/lib
14. After installing the libXcomp.so.1.4.0 library, we need another library, because libXcomp is for RPM distributions.
apt-get install libpng3
15. Add the NX library path to /etc/ld.so.conf
echo "/usr/NX/lib" >> /etc/ld.so.conf
16. Update the library search path.
ldconfig -v
17. If you do not perform all these library fixes, nxagent will not load and the server won't start.
18. Next, add a user and a password.
p600:/usr/NX/bin# ./nxserver --adduser jpiszcz
NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-03 OS (GPL)
NX> 1000 NXNODE - Version 1.4.0-03 OS (GPL)
NX> 716 Public key added to: /home/jpiszcz/.ssh/authorized_keys2
NX> 1001 Bye.
NX> 999 Bye
p600:/usr/NX/bin# ./nxserver --passwd jpiszcz
NX> 100 NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-03 OS (GPL)
New password:
Password changed.
NX> 999 Bye
p600:/usr/NX/bin#
19. Login with your username and password and it should work now.
Justin.
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