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We just recently converted most of our webservers to CentOS. I had been running in a Windows 2003 server environment for quite a few years. Mostly because I owned licenses and it was easy to find people to manage it. Anyways, I am an old school command line guy that got sidetracked and am now back on track. ALTHOUGH, I have been so spoiled by a GUI that there are somethings that I still feel comfortable running in a GUI. (I’ll Leave that discussion for another time, this intro is already too long).

Anyways, I wanted to install FreeNX and access a GUI without the system being natively in GUI mode (runlevel 5).  So, here are my steps that I used to install it to my main server running CentOS 4.4 in a similar config to ( The Perfect CentOS setup from HowToForge - I will blog my installation at another time as well )

Ok…  you know I love YUM, so here’s what I did: (commands in bold and italic)
First, I ran yum update to make sure all my packages were current

To install GNOME and X Windows:

yum groupinstall “X Window System” “GNOME Desktop Environment”

Install FreeNX

yum install nx freenx

That’s it on the server side, FreeNX is installed and configured

To get the client working:

Download from your server  client.id_dsa.key  located in /etc/nxserver

Download the client from nomachine - http://www.nomachine.com/download.php

Run the install and set up your client to talk to the machine and check advanced settings or configure. Under the configure dialog and the server section hit Key and import the client.id_dsa.key file you downloaded.  Save and click OK.

Now enter your password and you are good to go…

As some of you know, I have been converting my servers from Windows to Linux. Namely, CentOS. I have been finding a LOT of good information on the web on how to configure my system how I like.

Recently, I have been interested in doing a YouTube like site and wanted to have my users view videos using a built in flash player and upload videos in any format they want (well almosy any).

So, I found clipshare and other scripts that do this, but they all require the following to be installed:

I had diffuclty just installing from downloading the downloads on these sites and found a way to do it using the YUM system built into CentOS. Read the complete Post.