Hi,
im trying to setup a working xpra proxy server. I followed https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/ProxyServer
im on 3x ubuntu 16.04 (proxyhost+targethost in docker containers and the client is a physical machine)
Xpra Version on all machines: v2.1-r15427
on the proxy server i start the proxy with:
xpra proxy :100 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10050 --auth=multifile:filename=/xpra-auth --no-daemon -d all
cat xpra-auth john|secretpassword|1000|1000|tcp:172.17.0.3:10000|EXAMPLE_ENV=VALUE|compression=0
cat /etc/passwd .... nvidia-persistenced:x:106:109:NVIDIA Persistence Daemon,,,:/:/sbin/nologin john:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/john:/bin/bash
on the targethost
xpra start :11 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10000 --no-clipboard --no-pulseaudio --start-child="glxgears" --exit-with-child --no-printing --no-speaker --no-cursors --dbus-control=no --dbus-proxy=no --use-display --no-daemon
and on the client host
xpra attach --username=john --password-file=/password.txt tcp:i31forhlr4:10050
cat password.txt secretpassword
on the proxyhost i will get the following error:
2017-03-28 08:33:52,106 proxy video encoders: 2017-03-28 08:33:52,106 new proxy instance started 2017-03-28 08:33:52,106 for client tcp socket: 172.17.0.4:10050 <- 141.3.42.171:42458 2017-03-28 08:33:52,106 and server tcp socket: 172.17.0.4:58640 <- 172.17.0.3:10000 2017-03-28 08:33:52,107 Error: failed to setup control socket '/root/.xpra/xpra-proxy-proxy-2398': 2017-03-28 08:33:52,107 [Errno 13] Permission denied
on proxytarget i get
New tcp connection received from 172.17.0.4:58642
Any ideas how to trace the problem? Which debug flag should i enable?
Greets from Germany
Looks like the proxy instance tries to create its socket in /root/.xpra/xpra-proxy-proxy-$PID
, which it will not be able to do since it will be running as uid=1000, gid=1000.
I am not seeing the problem here running Fedora.
If you can still reproduce the problem with the latest beta builds, please attach the "-d proxy" output from the proxy server process.
Also attach the xpra showconfig | egrep "bind|socket-dir"
output, running it as the same user that executes the proxy server (root in your case).
A potential workaround would be to start the proxy server with "--socket-dirs=/tmp/" since that path is normally accessible to all users, but this would be less than ideal: you would then need to specify this socket path with other commands or make the setting permanent.
Hi,
now it looks good, except that xpra is not creating the /home/$USER/.xpra
dir and it throws the an error.
I have created the directory by hand, now it looks good. Maybe you can add the dir creation in python, so theres no need to do it by hand...
thanks and greets
it throws an error.
Please always specify the full error message - I assume that you are using the changes from comment:1 and not the "socket-dirs=/tmp/" workaround?
r15443 should fix that, new beta Ubuntu 16.04 builds posted.
Your assuming was right and your fix works like a charm.
Thank you very much
greets
(editing ticket title)
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1476