X2Go Bug report logs - #455
[X2Go-User] Buggy File & Folder sharing

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Package: x2goclient 
Tag: build-macosx 
Severity: important 
Version: 3.99.2.1 
Mike: 

Thank you very much. Will try the latest version, and strace, later this afternoon, and let you know what I find. 

Graham 

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From: "Mike Gabriel" <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> 
To: "Graham Stoddart-Stones" <gstones@pacifera.com> 
Cc: "Thierry Kauffmann" <thierry.kauffmann@univ-montp2.fr>, x2go-user@lists.berlios.de, submit@bugs.x2go.org 
Sent: Friday, 14 March, 2014 1:53:55 PM 
Subject: Re: [X2Go-User] Buggy File & Folder sharing 

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/ 
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X2Go Bug report logs - #455 [X2Go-User] Buggy File & Folder sharing

X2Go Bug report logs - #455
[X2Go-User] Buggy File & Folder sharing