Editing NX inside VE

You can run full graphical remote desktop inside container using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_technology NX technology]. This is handy for when you work from home and you wish to run a web browser on your work's internal network to access local resources. You can use NX client to connect to remote NX server.

= Fedora =

[[File:NX server on Fedora 12.png|thumb|300px|Connecting remotely with NX Client to Fedora inside OpenVZ container.]]

* Use fedora template to create new container and install desktop of your choice:

GNOME:

<pre>yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"</pre>

KDE:

<pre>yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"</pre>

XFce:

<pre>yum groupinstall "XFCE"</pre>


* You may need to install additional package audiofile:
<pre>yum install audiofile</pre>


* Download installation RPM packages for server from site [http://www.nomachine.com/select-package.php?os=linux&id=1 www.nomachine.com]. Choose right architecture i386 or x86_64.

Example: 
<pre>wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.4.0/Linux/nxclient-3.4.0-5.i386.rpm
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.4.0/Linux/nxnode-3.4.0-6.i386.rpm
wget http://64.34.161.181/download/3.4.0/Linux/FE/nxserver-3.4.0-8.i386.rpm</pre>


* Do simple manual installation of RPM packages.

Example:
<pre>
rpm -ivh nxclient-3.4.0-5.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh nxnode-3.4.0-6.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh nxserver-3.4.0-8.i386.rpm</pre>


* Done. You can now connect from NX client to your server.


= Ubuntu =

== Installation ==

Create a new container using the gutsy template. Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and enable the "multiverse" repository.
Install X and XDM
<pre>apt-get install xorg xdm</pre>
Then add this 3rd party repo to sources.list.  (Warning: the datakeylive.com repository below is obsolete!  No ubuntu repository offers freenx at the moment)

<tt>deb <s>http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu</s> gutsy main<br>
deb-src <s>http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu</s> gutsy main<br>
</tt>
Install the repo keys and update:<br>
<tt>
wget <s>http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/wjeremy.key</s> -O - | apt-key add -<br>
wget <s>http://www.datakeylive.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/alivesoftware.key</s> -O - | apt-key add -<br>
sudo apt-get update
</tt>
Install FreeNX (*)
<pre>
apt-get install expect openssh-server tcl8.4 libxcomp2 libxcompext2 libxcompshad nxlibs nxagent nxproxy nxclient freenx openssl
</pre>
For Ubuntu 8.04 :
<pre>
apt-get install expect openssh-server tcl8.4 libxcomp3 libxcompext3 libxcompshad nxlibs nxagent nxproxy nxclient freenx-server openssl
</pre>
Finally install XFCE
<pre>
apt-get install xfce4
</pre>

== Configuration ==

=== Configuring X ===
In /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, comment out the line where it says '''DisplayManager.requestPort: 0'''

In /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, comment out the line ''':0 local /usr/bin/X :0 vt7''' (this starts a local X server, which will fail)

In /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess, uncomment the line with '''* #any host can get a login window''' (Please keep in mind the security implications by the above line. Read the comments found in the file and set it appropriately)

=== Configure NX Server ===

Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Ensure that the files section looks similar to this:

<pre>
Section "Files"

        # path to defoma fonts
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
        FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
EndSection
</pre>

Now create a local user account:
<pre>useradd -m <username></pre>

Now add this user to nxserver:
<pre>nxserver --adduser <username></pre>

=== Configure NX client ===

Setup the Host/Port. 
In the desktop section select Unix and Custom. In Settings, select "Run the default X client script on server" and select "New virtual Desktop".

Now try to connect. You should get the XFCE desktop.

Thanks to dantalizing for the feedback.

== Troubleshooting ==

(*)
If you get any errors like:
<pre>
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcomp3_3.1.0-6-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libXcomp.so.3.1.0', which is also in package libxcomp2
</pre>
while installing the libxcomp package, just force-install the libxcomp package:
<pre>
# cd /var/cache/apt/archives
# dpkg --force-all -i libxcomp3_3.1.0-6-2_i386.deb
# apt-get -f install
</pre>

You '''can't print from VE''' to client PC easily because printing in NX is realized via samba-mount of shared client's printer and CIFS isn't virtualized yet.

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