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