From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 26 23:10:19 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36F7E16A419 for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:10:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mary.e@swbell.net) Received: from web82514.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web82514.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.86.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C0C413C46B for ; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:10:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mary.e@swbell.net) Received: (qmail 57552 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Aug 2007 23:10:18 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=swbell.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=K7aViab/zndXSxRzrgvo/wJkOXGQv6/8h4sWVaDrYlFfwWy+yf/lNuQIH8nknFTcQZjpbzx7v1UffbnGYsfYzHzpHEmA+c4zHhEilH8YJ8gUuSV0WRys0FeSm5qEBI+HtwDluYOmVAH4Msx5+OJ2/ykhMT5ZcOKjUnzHaotx1W4=; X-YMail-OSG: cyyC4PIVM1lVAm5FnI3i3GldJKYF.FCkBAWnF6SLpNtvG5qB Received: from [70.130.137.58] by web82514.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:10:18 PDT Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:10:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Mary Evans To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <385141.56517.qm@web82514.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: How Swe-e-e-et It Is!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 23:10:19 -0000 This is for anybody struggling with FreeBSD who might need some encouragement. I wanted to install nxserver from Nomachine.com. There is a port of the sources, along with an open-source implementation of the rest of it. I have been trying to make the &^^%$!!! thing work for [pick a big number. . . any BIG number] of days, and I just couldn't figure out what the double hockey-sticks was going wrong. I tried both the ports and the package installs, but I screwed up the configuration BIG-TIME! I finally decided I had learned too much, and was trying too hard. I decided one more try . . . after all, I'm eventually going to move this installation over to my primary computer and dump windows - - except as a program that runs under FBSD - - and I won't even need it. I gave it one more chance, after hunting down and eliminating every single reference to nxserver, both on my Winblow$ machine and on the FBSD box. I did an install, and then I just fired up the client on Winblow$. First time, it didn't connect, but I don't recall why just now. (I'm two beers into it, and I don't really care why!), but I fixed it, and IT WORKS! I am so excited! Jeez, you'd think I won the Powerball drawing! But to anybody who's struggling, keep struggling. The pay-off is HUMONGUS, in terms of the great feeling of satisfaction you get when something really succeeds. I'm going to try to look at what notes I took (when I sober up), so I can document it and be able to help somebody else. For right now, WHOO-HOOO! I'm gonna open another Bud Lite! Hang in there! Marye P.S. I think you probably gotta have a healthy dose of "nerd" to keep trying . . .that, or OCD.