All these years, the classic nx was not as dead as it seemed ;) It is used in production and develops as fast as it can.
I am very grateful to the developers of the ArcticaProject/nx-libs for maintaining backward compatibility and the opportunity to use their libraries instead of self-assembly.
Compared to the original freenx new features added by community:
CUPS Server mode: servers's system CUPS used directlty (witch sudo) and remote printers can be share between users;
NXACLS in user mode: control of starting specific applications and their substitution for users and groups;
Printers and shares multimount: in case multiply sessions from one client's computer try shares leave while there is at least one running session;
Pulseaudio sound: tunnelled, with or without resampling;
Localization of windows sharenames;
Control of rootles sessions ending: based on application-process internal customizable map;
Reduced connection time;
Used nxsetting sqlite db (nxsetup --reload or nxsetup --mkdb for update). Everything got even a little faster;
vnc and rdp over nx modes running;
Shadow mode worked also;
nxshadowacl script functionality moved to existing acl.
Many thanks to Djelf for long consultations on sqlite.
Thats all worked with opennx ce liux/windows client, but original nxclient basicaly alive too (with restrictions).
Debian package home-maded for Devuan ASCII now. There is a suspicion that under Debian Stretch everything will be fine.
On modern systems with glibc >= 2.28 to run nxclient you must apply solution from Djelf (on nxclient side of course).
Code from him to install nxclient 32/64:
mkdir nxclient cd nxclient wget http://debian.rot13.org/binary/64.34.161.181/download/3.5.0/Linux/nxclient_3.5.0-7_amd64.deb
wget https://github.com/dimbor-ru/freenx-server/files/4128228/nxfixglibc1190.tar.gz dpkg -i ./nxclient_3.5.0-7_amd64.deb find /usr/NX/lib -name "libz*" -delete tar -xvf nxfixglibc1190.tar.gz
cp ./nxfixglibc1190/x64/nxfixglibc1190.so /usr/NX/lib/nxfixglibc1190.so cp /usr/NX/bin/nxclient /usr/NX/bin/nxclient.bin echo '#!/bin/sh' > /usr/NX/bin/nxclient echo 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/NX/lib/nxfixglibc1190.so /usr/NX/bin/nxclient.bin /$@' >> /usr/NX/bin/nxclient
Solution to use Arctica nx-libs:
find /usr/NX/lib -name "libjpeg" -delete find /usr/NX/lib -name "libXcomp" -delete ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so /usr/NX/lib/libjpeg.so.62 ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXcomp.so.3 /usr/NX/lib/libXcomp.so
Archives of old nx stuff you can find here
dimbor. 2022