FreeNX connect to Edubuntu

[Jim Kronebusch]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:01:27 -0500, David Trask wrote
> Kai Wüstermann <k.wuestermann at gmx.de> writes:
> >Did you test this with the nomachine clients. I couldn't get them work
> >together. So the students will not get connected with their windows
> >machines.
> >
> >Kai
> 
> The nomachine clients worked fine for me!  The OS X client has some
> keyboard mapping issues, but the Windows client worked fine.  Of course
> the freenx linux client also works great as well.  I found that if you
> disable encryption then it probably won't work...so leave the encryption
> "on".  I also got the nomachine Windows client to work fine on my Gutsy
> laptop running XP in VMWare.  The Edubuntu server that I set FreeNX to run
> on is behind a firewall so I simply forwarded a non-standard port  "2022" 
> through to connect to port 22 on the Edubuntu server.  Just needed to make
> sure to enter "2022" as the port along with the firewall's external
> address....into the client.  Works great!

If everything is not encrypted, then you need to open ports starting at 5000 as well. 
The default max amount of client connections for freenx is 200.  So you could open
5000-5200 for the maximum amount of clients.  On Linux I had trouble outside with it
wanting to connect to port 11000 for the font server.  Also I think their might be more
ports for multimedia.  But the No Machine client for windows worked awesome for me. 
Full screen on Vista was almost like being at the school, KStars was even usable,
youtube videos weren't choppy, and full screen impress worked well.  I just need to do
some messing around with multimedia (sound) and getting local smb shares to show up in
the NX client.  Very cool.

So I tested with nxclient from Linux and the No machine windows client and things worked
beautiful.  I too ran into the keyboard map problems with OSX and haven't messed around
with it anymore than that.  

Now I just need to figure out how to get the linux client to run full screen, seems odd
that the Windows client can but the Linux one can't.

Jim

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