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Able to connect by SSH, but not x2go

I am having trouble connecting to a remote server with X2GO using a DSA key. Connecting works fine over SSH, but when I try to connect with X2GO, it goes immediately to the username/password box and doesn't want to use the private key I specify in…
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Can I attach NX to an existing X session?

I run an NX server on my ubuntu work computer and use an NX client on my ubuntu home computer to work from home. The problem with this set up is that I have to create a new X session whenever I do this-- I can't log into my existing locked session I…
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How to create a "terminal server server" in xubuntu

I am pretty new to system administration, and I am definitively new to serverfault, so apologies should my question not be following SF standards to the 100%. This is my problem: I have a xubuntu machine with a number of accounts on it that I need…
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Can someone explain how NX works?

I can't seem to find much about how the NX protocol actually works. I have heard it does something with sending X11 commands. But does this mean that the listening clients need to have an x server to run the actual commands and display them?
user57197
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NX Server lower-case d minimizes from OS X Client?

I've installed NX Server on Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat (10.10) using the instructions found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX I have a problem using the default NX Client for OS X (10.6) downloaded from the nomachine website. When using…
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X2GO - Linux with windows client - copy and paste does not work

I am running Ubuntu on a box and have X2GO installed which is working great except copy and paste. the client is a windows machine (tried 2 windows machines just in case) everything is up to date. sound works, things are nice and snappy and I am…
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VNC a Specific App Only

I have an arbitrary application (perhaps several) running on a server, and I want a remote client to be able to connect to the server and use a specific application (and only that application). In the case of multiple clients, each client should get…
user57598
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Terminal server for Linux

What are the features of graphical terminal servers and technologies available for Linux? is it open source/free how well does it scale management (?) what's the network usage, susceptibility to latency support for session pause/resume what client…
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Tips and tricks to make NX server more stable

My shop has been using the FreeNX server on Fedora 11 for a while now and mostly getting good results, especially with performance, but we have some annoying problems with client connections. There are two main issues: Client sessions sometimes…
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X2GO client not forwarding keys like Ctrl and Alt

I really hope someone can point me in the right direction here. X2GO server is on Ubuntu Server 16.04LTS ( Not a VM ). X2GO client is on Kali Rolling Release ( Updated ). Normally this would not be a problem but lets say I run a Terminal command…
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NoMachine NX window closes after establishing connection

I am trying to use nomachine nx server and client. But somehow it doen't work. What happens is the following: Client starts up Client authenticates with Server The NoMachine window appears for 2-4 seconds The NoMachine window exists Somehow…
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Can not reconnect to NX session

I'm no NX expert. My NXServer (NOMachine) has two running (GNOME) sessions and I can not reconnect to them ? Even if I stop/start the nxserver daemon, the nxssh sessions are still there. nxserver --shutdown also fails Before I do a hard kill, I…
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How bad is it to use the NX server default SSH key?

It is said in NoMachine NX setup and FreeNX ubuntu setup article that using the default SSH key for NX server is bad for security. How much is it bad? Is it the case that the default SSH key is the same for every NX user in the world and everybody…
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Why would sshd daemon fail a connection that manually started /usr/sbin/sshd permits?

The goal is to setup FreeNX. Following the advise from another serverfault user I was able to test various configurations of ssh and nxsetup connections to the sshd server as daemon or manually started instance of /usr/sbin/sshd. The daemon…
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Any reason sshd_config can not be set to an authorized_keys file not in home?

Troubleshooting SSH and NX I have a working SSH connection using a RSA key. The trouble is NX server wants the sshd_config parameter AuthorizedKeysFile to be set to an NX installed file, /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/authorized_keys2. Once I made this…
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