Comments on: Setup FreeNX under Ubuntu

By: Das

Das — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:33:15 +0000

I installed freeNX on ubuntu 9.10 successfully, and installed NX Client in my Windows 7 PC. Installation was very smooth, and I can also access my Ubuntu system very easily, there was no problem at all.

I have an application running on Ubuntu, I want to get the prints on to my windows PC. I have followed instructions given in different posts given in the net, but nothing gave a good solution.

If anybody can help me in this, it will be of great healp.

Thanks

By: cougarmaster

cougarmaster — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:25:33 +0000

Any advise or small clue as to how to print remotely to a windows xp client? The server is Karmic 9.10 Ubuntu and want to print to remote windows xp client.

Tks

By: Alex Saavedra

Alex Saavedra — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:26 +0000

I just upgraded a server from 9.04 Jaunty to 9.10 Karmic Koala and FreeNX stopped working. So I uncommented 2 lines from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freenx.ppa.list, which was appropriately changed by do-release-upgrade command:
# Ubuntu FreeNX Repository fro Karmic Koala
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/freenx-team/ubuntu karmic main
Then I upgraded packages. Then FreeNX started working as usual.
A. Saavedra

By: cougarmaster

cougarmaster — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:40:10 +0000

I got the file sharing to work from windows XP which only works for cifs and not smb. But printing does not work at all. If I use it from a ubuntu client printing and files sharing works. Have any ideas how to solve the windows xp printing?

By: cougarmaster

cougarmaster — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:01:32 +0000

If you want to install for Power PC check this link

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX#Related%20docs

By: cougarmaster

cougarmaster — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:41:28 +0000

Would be really greatful if you can do a tutorial on how to get printing and file sharing from windows xp to work with freenx server and ubuntu.

By: Alan Doyle

Alan Doyle — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:47:33 +0000

Hi Stefan,

Have been scouring the ‘net and I can’t find any useful references to FreeNX as a server on PowerPC architecture. Sorry. The FreeNX PPA only covers x86 architectures. Much as I hate to say it I don’t know where to take this from here.

Ta,
Al.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:57:57 +0000

Hi Alan,
Thanks for advise. But hmm… it still doesn’t work.
aptitude search libxcompext3
and
aptitude search libxcompshad3
don’t show any results in a terminal window.
libxcompext3 still can’t be found. PS3 is a PowerPC architecture. Does this cause the problem?
Regards, Stefan.

By: Alan Doyle

Alan Doyle — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:38:04 +0000

Stefan/Jorge - I've just completed a fresh install of Jaunty and reinstalled FreeNX as above. The 2 problem packages are libxcompext3 and libxcompshad3. These are provided by nxcompext - 1:3.3.0-4-0ubuntu1 and nxcompshad - 3.3.0-3-0freenxteam1 both of which are only found in the FreeNX PPA. Please try the following lines to see if it helps. Make sure the key is installed sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D018A4CE Make sure the PPA is setup correctly sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freenx.ppa.list Make sure APT can use the FreeNX PPA sudo apt-get update Search for libxcompext3 aptitude search libxcompext3 Search for libxcompshad3 aptitude search libxcompshad3 Install the packages sudo apt-get install libxcompext3 libxcompshad3 Hope this helps, Alan.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:39:36 +0000

Hi, sorry. When I pressed submit, I knew you would ask… thanks for your quick response.
I am using Ubuntu 9.04 for PS3.
I have installed FreeNX some time ago on my PS3 and got it working through my WinXP desktop. But now I seem to forget one step of the installation procedure. I have reinstalled Ubuntu the day before yesterday after trying Fedora.
Maybe I have to activate the universe repositories. Do you know a command line string to do that?
Maybe there is something wrong with the key to ppa.launchpad.net?