Windows to Linux FreeNX (Ubuntu 6.06)

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I was setting up "freenx" on Ubuntu Dapper-Drake (6.06.1 Alternate), and thanks to Sevea's repositories and this excellent HowTo I had the nxserver in place and ready for action in no time!
There's also some info in the Ubuntu wiki about FreeNX.

The windows client should have come from NoMachine, but the never client version (2.1.0) doesn't work with FreeNX 1.4.x anymore - so luckily I ran across the older client .exe: http://www.arte.unipi.it/Public/Win32/n ... .0-138.exe

This client was able to connect to my server, but I wanted to "enable printer and file sharing" (service tab) and ran into several errors:

1) smbfs wasn't installed:

smbmnt: command not found

- install the "smbfs" package.

2)

Info: Share: '//W2KSQLSRV/d' failed to mount: smbmnt must be installed suid root for direct user mounts (1001,1001)
smbmnt failed: 1

According to these instructions, execute the following commands:

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$ sudo chmod u+s `which smbmnt`
$ sudo chmod u+s `which smbumount`

(worked fine for me)