Comments on: Ubuntu Desktop in the Cloud

By: Martti Pitkanen

Martti Pitkanen — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:45:01 +0000

In NX client, is it possible to see & use local drives and printer,

as it is in Win TS client?

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:28:01 +0000

This doesn’t seem to be working with the newest Lucid builds. Hopefully the bugs will get worked out before the final release.

By: JavaRocky

JavaRocky — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:41:23 +0000

Mind BLOWN!!!

Just use ’sudo adduser new-user-name-here’ for the newbies out there.

And yes it’s very fast. Oh and yo Eric, you are Legend with those AMIs. Keep it up!

By: Kreg

Kreg — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:43:06 +0000

Jim, is there any way you can write up a few more steps? It would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve made many attempts, but have not been able to get the desktop to display. I think I’m close because I get past many of the NXClient dialogs. However, I’m not able to get past this message:

Info: Proxy running in client mode with pid
‘8160′. Session: Starting session at ‘Sun Mar 7
10:57:04 2010′.
Warning: Connected to remote version 3.3.0 with
local version 3.4.0.
Info: Connection with remote proxy completed.
Error: Function fork failed. Error is 11
‘Resource temporarily unavailable’.
Error: Failed to execute the X auth command.
Error: Cannot read the cookie from the X
authorization file.
Error: Error creating the X authorization.
Session: Session terminated at ‘Sun Mar 7
10:57:35 2010′.

A more detailed discussion can be found at:

http://aws-musings.com/4-easy-steps-to-enable-remote-desktop-on-your-ubuntu-ec2-instance/comment-page-1/#comment-102

Thanks for the help.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:02:31 +0000

If you set a password for your user, you should not have to do this.

By: BrownieBoy

BrownieBoy — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:57:54 +0000

After you’ve created your new user in Ubuntu, you have to copy over the /home/ubuntu/.ssh and folder its one file to your new user’s home folder, or you won’t be able to login.

Remember to set the ownership on folder and the file to the new user too.

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By: Eric Hammond

Eric Hammond — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:24:47 +0000

mnk: Yes, you can have multiple NX clients accessing the same EC2 instance and they can either be seeing the same desktop session or have their own sessions. I’ve used the shared desktop approach to walk clients through demos. I wouldn’t give them access to my personal desktop, but working together on a temporary EC2 instance at a dime an hour is an easy decision.

By: mnk

mnk — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:56:26 +0000

Hi,

Can more than one person connect to the same ’session’ so that both people can see/use the same mouse and keyboard in the same session?

Thanks