Package: x2goclient Tag: build-macosx Severity: important Version: 3.99.2.1 Hi Graham, hi Thierry, [I forward this bug repport to our bug tracker On Do 13 Mär 2014 15:01:42 CET, Graham Stoddart-Stones wrote: > Thierry: > > Just to confirm that we are encountering the same problem with Mac > OSX 3.5.1, X2Goclient 3.99.2.1: > > When you start up X2Goclient on the Mac, you get an error dialog: > > "sshd client not started, you'll need sshd for printing and file > sharing....." > > In OSX, openssh-server is built-in, and is activated by setting > "Enable Remote Login" in System Preferences Sharing, as many others > have noted. However, this does not stop the error dialog from > recurring every time. That leads to another error message "File > cannot be opened". If one ignores this, X2Goclient starts and runs > normally, provided one wishes to neither print locally, nor share > files from the Mac with the remote server. > > I have seen lots of other emails on this topic, suggesting that the > error message does not necessarily apply to the Mac (ie sshd is in > fact running, the error message simply means that the x2goclient > code is looking for a response from a Linux-like file (which does > not occur in the same place in OSX), similarly the "File Cannot be > opened" again refers to a file that is either not used on a Mac, or > is in a wholly different location from where that file is actually > stored on a Mac. I have not seen this point formally answered > anywhere. > > For me, the concern is that, whether sshd is running on the Mac or > not, File Sharing does not appear to be working. I am not > sufficiently familiar with X2Go nor with the Mac to know where to > look on the server for the Mac shared folders, but I do know that > there is nothing under "media", as there is with Linux and a PC, > which is where I normally look. Again, I have searched the bulletins > and forums, and often seen this point raised - I have just not found > the answer on how to get round it. > > So, am keen to see how you get on, and whether anybody else can > please shed any light! Can you cross-check the observed problem with latest X2Go Client [1]??? Can you launch X2Go Client from a terminal on Mac OS X and use a tool like strace (if that exists) and check its output for pointers to file-not-found errors? That would be really helpful for tracking down this issue. Mike [1] http://code.x2go.org/releases/binary-macosx/x2goclient/releases/4.0.1.3/ -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb