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The Arrival of NX, Part 5: Using NX

Oct 04, 2005  By Kurt Pfeifle
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We know you've been waiting for it, so here's the next installment of our NX series. This time out, learn how to navigate with hands-on exercises that demonstrate all NX can do.
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Really awesome series of articles and the product itself, NX.

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 05:51.

I have a local linux ws and a remote one sitting across in a different continent where I need to do extensive Java development using Eclipse IDE. I have been using NX for quite sometime now and it is working very well for me. This series of articles have clearly explained why.

Thanks

> installing FreeNX now that

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/01/2009 - 11:12.

> installing FreeNX now that NoMachine has released NX Server Free Edition.

Beware "NX Server Free Edition" is not "libre" software, it limits you to only two concurrent sessions, and so on.

FreeNX has not this limitations

When will Part 6 be out?

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Submitted by Brian Takita (not verified) on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 01:17.

I am really enjoying reading this series and am impressed with NX. When will Part 6 be out? Thanks.

NX Server Free Edition

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Submitted by Marc (not verified) on Fri, 12/15/2006 - 16:58.

Fast forward a year from when this excellent article was written, there is probably not much point now in installing FreeNX now that NoMachine has released NX Server Free Edition.

This is fairly easy to install and offers more features than FreeNX.

freenx / nxserver: difficult to install

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 03/04/2006 - 23:45.

I've probably installed freenx and nxclient a dozen times, and each time it has been a hellishly difficult process. One can do a vanilla install on two hosts on the same LAN, with virtually everthing set up correctly, and still get the dreaded "Using auth method: publickey / Authentication failed" message. So my conclusion is that it might be better to seek other ways of remotely accessing machines at this point than freenx.

"I've probably installed

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 03/23/2007 - 08:50.

"I've probably installed freenx and nxclient a dozen times, and each time it has been a hellishly difficult process."

I can second that, I had to install freenx on some machines last year and the configuration almost drove me crazy. The same client asked me to update these machines to the new nx server. I tried to install it on some local machines and it went very smooth!

Using NX to connect to Windows

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Submitted by Jay (not verified) on Thu, 10/20/2005 - 05:18.

Hi,
NX really is great stuff, getting amazingly quick connections to my Ubuntu Breezy server at home whilst I'm sitting at work!

The only thing I can't seem to do is use the client to connect to my XP via RDP. I can run the nxdesktop from the ubuntu box no problem, am I missing something in the set-up?

Any help gratefully received!

thanks so far...

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 10/05/2005 - 02:35.

Hi Kurt,

thanks for the great series of articles about FreeNX which you publish here.

One thing tho, to which I never found a solution on the nomachine site or elsewhere:

When using the rdesktop feature from a Windows NoMachine client to a FreeNX (Debian-based) server (as proxy) to a Windows 2003 server at some client's site, I don't get a german keyboard layout - no matter what I choose in the NXclient. Even after adding german locales (and setting them as default) on the Debian proxy, there's no way to change that. Using version 1.5 didn't make a difference, and, suprisingly: when using the client on Debian (english desktop) as well, all just plain works [TM]!

So what do I have to do to make Windows clients play nicely?

Thanks again,
and kind regards,
wjl aka Wolfgang Lonien

same for me

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Submitted by Geli (not verified) on Fri, 09/29/2006 - 15:30.

Hey Wolfgang,
I'm getting the exact same bug i think: I connect with a Windows-NX-Client (2.0.0.98) to a SUSE linux machine with recent FreeNX straight from nomachine.com and the f***ing Keyboard layout will only be English! Even though i have on both machines German-Keyboard as default, and also selected "German" in the NXClient.

pls drop me a line if you could fix it!

best regards
Geli

stNOSPAM_AT_netrent.ch

keyboard mapping == nxdesktop bug ?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 10/05/2005 - 20:30.

the problem you describe looks like a bug in NX' nxdesktop component (i mean to have read about it b4).

i assume you have tried the latest bugfix release of the nxclient for windows from nommachine already, yes? and also read their detailed release notes, yes?

if that didnt fix it for you, youll have to be patient and wait for the next release by nomachine.

Re: keyboard mapping == nxdesktop bug ?

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Submitted by Gian Filippo Pinzari (not verified) on Thu, 10/06/2005 - 06:12.

This bug shouldn't affect the NoMachine NX server and, as far as I can say, it is not a bug of nxdesktop, as nxdesktop uses the keyboard correctly, according to the settings of the remote X server.

On Windows the keyboard settings are downloaded by the NX server to the client upon session startup. This is a feature of NX server that is activated whenever the remote X server is unable to handle the keyboard initialization locally, for example if the X server lacks the XKB tools and related keymap files. This makes much simpler to create thin client setups where only the X server is deployed, without the X libraries and the additional tools (as in the NX client for Windows).

I don't know how FreeNX handles this but the feature was implemented in November 2004. There was a long thread in the NX project's mailing list and Fabian and Kurt should have received copy of it. It shouldn't be difficult for the FreeNX guys to implement this in the same way as it is implemented in the NoMachine NX server.

/Gian Filippo.

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