[X2go-dev] x2goclient authentication error!

[Gerry Reno]

On 12/18/2010 02:11 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 18:20 +0800, Paul Clark wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>>    hoping for some pointers here in getting x2go working.
>>
>>
>> Two problems below - related or not?
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>> Problem 1) Mac OS X client won't connect to server:
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>> Dialogue error message is:
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>> ''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.
>   
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>> 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>
>
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>   

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