User:Swapnil durgade/NX Terminal Server on Fedora Core 3
A. Setup NX Server on Fedora Core 3 machine[edit | edit source]
From a windows machine, use putty to login as root to Fedora Core 3 machine
1. run command
rpm -q nc expect
If you get error like "package expact is not installed" or "package nc is not installed", from fedora core cds, copy expect-5.42.1-1.i386.rpm and nc-1.10- 22.i386.rpm to /root directory and run commands
cd /root rpm -ivh expect-5.42.1-1.i386.rpm rpm -ivh nc-1.10-22.i386.rpm
2. Then to download nx server, run command
wget http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/nx-1.5.0-0.FC3.1.i386.rpm wget http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/freenx-0.4.4-1.fdr.0.noarch.rpm
3. After download is finished, run command
rpm -ivh nx-1.5.0-0.FC3.1.i386.rpm rpm -ivh freenx-0.4.4-1.fdr.0.noarch.rpm
4. create a user called testuser and set password for it with command
useradd testuser password testuser
Now your NX Server is UP and running
B. Setup NX Client on Windows machine[edit | edit source]
1. Download nx client for windows from following link
http://64.34.161.181/download/1.5.0/client/nxclient-1.5.0-132.exe
2. Run nxclient-1.5.0-132.exe to install nx client
3. Click on Start > Programs > NX Client for Windows > NX Connection Wizard
In “Session” type Linux
In “Host” type ip address of Fedora Core 3 Server
Click Next
4. Select "Unix", “Gnome”. Make sure that "Enable SSL encryption on all traffic" is checked and click "Next".
5. Check "Show the Advanced Configuration dialog" box and click "Finish".
6. Click on button "Key...". It will open General – Key Management window. Press Alt + Tab to go to putty
On putty, run command vi /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key and copy the key (To copy, just select the key text on screen. The selected text gets copied on windows clipbord).
Press Alt + Tab to go General – Key Management window and paste it here.
Click "Save", "Save" and "Ok".
7. Now type your login name testuser that you created on Linux machine and your password and click on Login button
More information on
http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/
Enjoy !
-Swapnil (Friday, December 09, 2005) Email- swapnil_durgade@yahoo.com