[X2go-dev] x2goclient authentication error!

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Sat Dec 18 22:11:45 CET 2010


On 12/18/2010 02:57 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 12/18/2010 02:11 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 18:20 +0800, Paul Clark wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>
>>>    hoping for some pointers here in getting x2go working.
>>>
>>>
>>> Two problems below - related or not?
>>>
>>>
>>> --------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Problem 1) Mac OS X client won't connect to server:
>>>
>>>
>>> Dialogue error message is:
>>>
>>>
>>> ''Can't connect to X-Server
>>> Please check your settings".
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> <snip>
>> We haven't done a lot of work with the Mac clients but here are some
>> notes we made to ourselves a while back:
>>
>> The X2Go Mac client uses the OSX X11 server.  The X11 server must be
>> configured to accept remote sessions in its preferences.  One must also
>> enable a root screen in X11 preferences if one wants truly full screen
>> view in X2Go.
>> To use print, local media sharing, and sound, one must also enable
>> Remote Login in the System Preferences.
>>   
>>     
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Problem 2) Linux client on server won't connect to localhost . Is this
>>> allowed? I attempted this to try to resolve problem 1!
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> <snip>
>>   
>>     
>>> Is it even possible to run the x2goclient on the server?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Nope ;)  That's the problem.  One cannot currently connect an x2goclient
>> to an x2goserver on the same system.
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> And on Mac there are a number of things that make using the built-in
> X-server environment difficult.
> You have to enable X-forwarding in /etc/sshd_config as I remember. 
> Probably other things as well.  Haven't played with this in quite a while.
>
> -Gerry
>
>
>   

On your Mac check these settings and make sure that they are false:
defaults read org.x.X11 | grep -E "nolisten_tcp|no_auth"

Regards,
Gerry




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