Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-24 Thread Jeremy Gray
I almost gave up myself when trying to set it up. its really worth it once you get it working. for me it would authenticate but not connect. I forget if the error message was the same as you are getting, sounds vaguely similiar. turned out that I needed to add a line to /etc/hosts.allow sshd:

Re: {Phishing} {Disarmed} [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-24 Thread Jeremy Gray
It works now just fine. Cannot see any visible advantage over VNC, though, at least not at LAN speeds. glad things are working for you. yes, you'd only notice better speed when working remotely There's one thing that I apparently cannot do with NX and that is attach to an existing non-NX

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-23 Thread Jeremy Gray
ssh: connect to host xx port 22: Connection refused Looks like it is the client? Agreed? hmmm, I'd say probably not. what about tcp wrappers maybe? just to check the client, I deleted my 2.whatever windows client, downloaded the latest windows client 3.0.0-73, and installed. it imported

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
So here we are, in the modern times with GNOME (I chose that over KDE, because), and Open Office, Thunderbird, and lots of other nice graphical apps. I want to run the apps on an app server and access them for a thin client. I am familiar with the K12TLSP project, but right now I want to

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
Kai, I looked on that page and I see that it integrates with SSH and can use SSL natively. Does NX have any advantages beyond that over VNC? I'd say nx wins on security, speed, and admin hassle-factor, at least based on my limited experience and for my needs (small research lab in a

Re: [CentOS] Trying to understand Remote desktops

2007-08-21 Thread Jeremy Gray
Do you run the server in init 5? Or can it run in init 3? Trying to save memory on the server I've only tried run level 5... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos