Unable to connect

[tuuk]

Hi,

I have installed NoMachine on two Ubuntu 13.04 machines. However, I am having difficulty connecting from one to the other. As the server (i.e., the machine I would like to connect to) is behind a firewall, I use VPN.

I choose “SSH” for connection type as “NX” cannot connect at all (could be a port issue with my router, that is, with incoming traffic on port 4000).

Even though I can ssh to my server on the command line, no machine connection (via ssh) is lost soon after I enter my password on the server. The log file “connection” contains

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Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Welcome to Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64)

* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/

New release ‘13.10’ available.
Run ‘do-release-upgrade’ to upgrade to it.

Linux
NX> 900 SSH connections are not supported on this server.
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At the moment, I am away from my computer and has no access to the “session” log, but I can include that later.

Does the above give any clue as to why this problem might be occuring?
What is this “Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding” message?

Thanks,
Tugkan

[titan]

I understand it’s not as easy as before, but why don’t you just tunnel the NX connection?

ssh -L 4555:localhost:4000 youruser@yourhost

Now connect to nx://localhost:4555

Remember to disable UDP in the connection settings or you will have to wait for the UDP negotiation timeout.

[tuuk]

Thanks Titan. That solved my problem. Greatly appreciated.

I have a slight nuisance due to multiple monitors on the server, but I should probably start a new thread for that.

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