x2goclient on TC?

[sschoen]

Hi,

in my school we use TC based terminal clients with NoMachines nxclient, the terminal server works under debian lenny and freenx. Installation of nxclient-tar.gz from http://nomachine.com was easy, and it worked well for more than a year.

But now we want to use preferably x2go (Server and Client, http://x2go.obviously-nice.de ) because of better file transfer options between server and client. X2go is developed only for Debian, Ubuntu and Maemo-Linux. For these three distributions x2goclient works very fine. But it should do this also under TC. Compiling the x2goclient sources (http://x2go.obviously-nice.de/deb/) for TC seems to be too difficult for me. I tried to copy all x2go related files from an installation under debian (kernel 2.6.26) into the TC file tree. This worked, but not very well since TC has some unusual paths - for example sshd-keys in /usr/local/etc/ssh instead of /etc/ssh. May be different kernels between debian and TC are also responsible for the bad result. And perhaps I didn't find all necessary files to copy.

Is there a chance that one or more of the TC developers look on the x2goclient-gtk 3.x sources? Using TC as a terminal client distribution for x2go would be a good idea.

Yours
Stephan

[^thehatsrule^]

If it's just a problem with the ssh stuff, you could use a symlink from /usr/local/etc/ssh to /etc/ssh as a workaround.

[sschoen]

^thehatsrule^,

thank you, that helps for this special problem.

But my basic question is: could you and your co-developers compile the x2goclient-gtk sources for TC and make a TC extension?

Yours
Stephan

[^thehatsrule^]

You can request an extension from the community (i.e. there's a huge thread floating around) if you want someone else who might be interested to build it.

If you want to have a go at the source yourself, check out the wiki on "creating extensions" for TC specifics.