Comments on: openSUSE 11.1 Installation and Setup

By: Bisto

Bisto — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:38 +0000

Thanks a lot for the Media info. You are hereby bookmarked. :0)

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:13:11 +0000

Mike,
You want to setup NX server on your Suse desktop and then connect from your Mac with the NX client.
You can download NX client for Mac OSX here:
http://www.nomachine.com/download.php

By: mike w

mike w — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:08:09 +0000

I just got a desktop and installed Suse 11.1. Your tips are really helpful!

I am trying to figure out if NX will be useful to remotely connect to this
suse desktop from my Macbook Pro on OSX 10.5.7.

I use “Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac” version 2.0 to connect to a windows desktop,
but I don’t know of a similar product to connect to a suse desktop (e.g. Suse Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac).

I’ll keep hunting, but if you have heard of the client software I need for my Mac, please let me know.
–Mike

By: Chet

Chet — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:22:05 +0000

Thanks for the instructions on NX. I am a newbie and I was pulling my hair out trying to get VNC working. I followed your instructions and NX jumped to life immediately.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:27:45 +0000

Well the error message for your version of NX says it expects:
./nxserver –install suse

By: ls

ls — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:46:41 +0000

Hi i fallow the way that u mention creating the NXserver.. but it’s not working….
linux-7gl0:/usr/NX/scripts/setup # ./nxserver –install
NX> 704 ERROR: Unknown action ‘–install’.

Usage: nxserver ACTION

Actions:

–install {SYSTEM} Run the NX server install procedure for the
specified system or distribuition

–update {SYSTEM} Run the NX server update procedure for the
specified system or distribution

–uninstall Run the NX server uninstall procedure for the
specified system or distribution

–pre-uninstall Disable access to new NX sessions, terminate
sessions and reset the session DBs.

–keygen Generate a new pair of SSH keys. After run-
ning this procedure, the NX clients will use
the key: /usr/NX/share/keys/default.id_dsa.key
to connect to this NX server.

–help Show this message

The specified SYSTEM must be one of the following operating systems,
or none. In the latter case the NX setup will try to autodetect the
system or will choose the layout that better resembles one of the
known systems.

redhat RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, AS, ES, etc.
suse SuSE 7.3, 8.x, 9.x, etc.
mandrake Mandrake 9.2 10.x, etc.
debian Debian Woody 3.0, Unstable, Ubuntu, etc.
solaris Sun Solaris 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, etc.
fedora Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:30:21 +0000

Hi Dan,
If you clarify, I’m more than happy to update if there’s a section that is wrong or not clear enough.

-Ben

By: Danilo

Danilo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:14:02 +0000

Thanks,
I am a newbie in Open Suse 11.1, but your instructions did work very good in my computer,
good job buddy

Dan

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:19:19 +0000

My instructions for NX are for NX. Not for FreeNX.

By: spark

spark — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:02:43 +0000

dude, your instructions for setting up FreeNX are wrong.

# Run “/usr/NX/scripts/setup/nxserver –install”
# Run “/usr/NX/bin/nxserver –keygen”

should be:

nxsetup –install

also, -keygen is not a valid script.

but, nxsetup –install –setup-nomachine-key is valid