On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:52:17 -0500, David Trask wrote > "Jim Kronebusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Does anyone have a good tutorial or link to instructions to getting > >FreeNX working with > >Edubuntu? I have my thin clients at the school authenticating with > >OpenLDAP, but I > >would like to provide students a secure and relatively fast way to > >connect to their > >school desktop from home. FreeNX seems like it would probably be the > >best solution. > >But from any tutorials I read it looks like you need to set up users > >separately for > >FreeNX. I really want something that they can use to see the identical > >desktop they see > >at school, from home. > > Jim....keep me in the loop on this too....I'm curious
Well, I got this working yesterday......surprisingly easy. I'll quickly list the steps I went through. Server: 1. Open a terminal. Then add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list # Install FreeNX deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx deb-src http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx 2. Next run the following command "wget http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/seveas.gpg"; to download the GPG key from Seveas. 3. Then "sudo apt-key add seveas.gpg" to install the GPG key. 4. Now update the APT repository with "sudo apt-get update" and run "sudo apt-get install freenx" Client: 1. Open a terminal. Then add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list # Install FreeNX deb http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx deb-src http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl feisty-seveas freenx 2. Next run the following command "wget http://mirror.ubuntulinux.nl/seveas.gpg"; to download the GPG key from Seveas. 3. Then "sudo apt-key add seveas.gpg" to install the GPG key. 4. Now update the APT repository with "sudo apt-get update" and run "sudo apt-get install nxclient" You're finished. Open your new client and plug in the settings. There really was no other setup. I thought when I messed with this in the past things were more complicated. For reference, I'm running Edubuntu Feisty 7.04 with LDM_DIRECTX enabled. I have not tried this with any other version, or with encryption enabled. Jim -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Cotter Technology Department, and is believed to be clean. -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
