anthonywu/Ubuntu-FreeNX-AMI

An Amazon EC2 Machine Image that supports remote desktop via the NX protocol. Intended use case is to support a cloud-hosted personal workspace accessible from any computer.

Ubuntu-FreeNX-AMI

An Amazon EC2 Machine Image that supports remote desktop via the NX protocol. Intended use case is to support a Cloud-hosted personal workspace accessible from any computer.

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Status

Working:

• AMI is packaged correctly
• FreeNX Server is installed

Not Working:

• Unable to verify client connection
• Needs some thought on authentication methods

TODOs:

• How should AMIs be distributed?
• Provide AMIs for every desktop variant (KDE, LXDE, etc)
• Troubleshooting guides

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Usage

Launching your personal server

TODO: Write instructions for using AWS web console to launch one of a selection of released AMIs.

1. Create a Security Group
2. Launch Instance with Security Group

Client Setup

1. Download and Install NoMachine Client ((Mac/Windows/Linux/Android/iOS)
   • On OS X with Homebrew you can install using Caskroom: brew cask install nomachine
2. Profit? To be verified.

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Development

1. Install Dev Tools
   • AWS Command Line Interface (i.e. awscli)
   • Packer
   • jq
2. Fork this repo
3. Contribute Pull Requests

References

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX
• http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-desktop
• http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/locator/ec2/
• http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-getting-started.html
• https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html

License

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE