[winswitch] Xpra proxy with --auth=allow does not work

Thu Sep 1 07:40:26 BST 2016

Some more information :-
1) server works with --auth and --tcp-auth. But proxy only works with tcp-auth.
2) I can connect to each of the servers directly. I can get their displays to local windows machine if I connect to them directly. But no luck getting the display through proxy. Connected like this :-
Xpra_cmd.exe attach --username=ubuntu --password-file=pswd.txt
tcp/ubuntu at 52.53.168.31/10000Xpra_cmd.exe attach --username=ubuntu --password-file=pswd.txt
tcp/ubuntu at 52.53.168.31/10001
3) --tcp-auth=none or --tcp-auth=allow do not work. They kept giving me authentication error no mater what I do. Finally, I had to use multifil to get rid of authetication errors.

I tried both the internal and external IP address. aa.bb.cc.dd:10001 as well as xx.yy.xx.aa:10001. I dont get authetication errors or connection errors with either. But none of them show me display.
On local machine password file pswd.txt just had single word secretpassword. Again no next line character.
5) The xpra versions from the server log is shown like this :- 

^[[31m2016-08-31 21:50:45,340 Error setting up our dbus server:^[[0m
^[[31m2016-08-31 21:50:45,340  No module named dbus^[[0m
2016-08-31 21:50:45,341 xpra X11 version 1.0-r13253 64-bit^[[0m
2016-08-31 21:50:45,341  running with pid 6869 on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 xenial^[[0m
2016-08-31 21:50:45,341  connected to X11 display :11^[[0m
2016-08-31 21:50:45,391 xpra is ready.^[[0m
^[[33m2016-08-31 21:50:46,343 Warning: pulseaudio has terminated shortly after startup.^[[0m

And logs from the proxy are here :-
2016-08-31 22:26:59,300 serving html content from '/usr/share/xpra/www'^[[0m
2016-08-31 22:26:59,312 xpra proxy version 1.0-r13253 64-bit^[[0m
2016-08-31 22:26:59,312  running with pid 7491 on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 xenial^[[0m
2016-08-31 22:26:59,313  connected to X11 display :13^[[0m
2016-08-31 22:26:59,313 xpra is ready.^[[0m

6) Anything else I might have forgotten?I am running out of ideas to try.Let me know? Very motivated to make it work .... but have no more ideas to experiment.
 Regards, 
Mukul 
( https://sites.google.com/site/mukulagrawal ) 

    On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 8:45 PM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:

 On 01/09/16 05:55, Mukul Agrawal wrote:
> OK. Upgraded my ubuntu distributon to Xenial and then got the xpra 1.0
> from beta. Still, cannot get it to work. Any help?
> 
> started proxy like this
> -- xpra proxy :13
> --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10002--tcp-auth=multifile:filename=/home/ubuntu/xpra-auth
> 
> started a couple of servers on same machine like this
> -- xpra start :11 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10000
> -- xpra start :12 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10001
> -- DISPLAY=:11 xlclock &
> -- DISPLAY=:12 xlogo
Don't do that. Same as the other thread about tty. Use this instead:
xpra start :DISPLAY --bind-tcp=... --start=COMMAND

> try to attach from windows machine
> -- Xpra_cmd.exe attach --username=ubuntu --password-file=pswd.txt
> tcp/52.53.168.31/10002/11
> 
> Everything seems to go well in the beginning. No error message. It
> simply drops the connection without saying anything.
You're not sharing your multifile password file, so I won't be able to
reproduce what you did.

You're also not showing what versions you've used for testing, the only
version shown is from the win32 client, which is well out of date:
> Python/Gtk2 Microsoft Windows 7 client version 0.16.3-r12203

There's a debug flag for authentication, try adding "-d auth" to your
server command line.

Cheers
Antoine

> 
> Here is the log from proxy :-
> 
> 
> 
> 2016-08-31 22:28:47,740 New unix-domain connection received on
> /home/ubuntu/.xpra/ip-aa-bb-cc-dd-13^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,624 New tcp connection received from
> xx.yy.zz.aa:5792^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,625 Authentication required by multi password file
> authenticator module^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,625  sending challenge for 'ubuntu' using hmac
> digest^[[0m
> ^[[33m2016-08-31 22:29:00,955 Warning: enc_xvid failed its self test^[[0m
> ^[[33m2016-08-31 22:29:00,955  No module named xvid^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,966 proxy video encoders: x264^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,966 new proxy instance started^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,966  for client tcp socket: aa.bb.cc.dd:10002 <-
> xx.yy.zz.aa:5792^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,967  and server tcp socket: aa.bb.cc.dd:43006 <-
> 22.33.44.55:10000^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,967 proxy instance now also available using unix
> domain socket:^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,967  /home/ubuntu/.xpra/ip-aa-bb-cc-dd-proxy-7553^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,967 setting sockets (tcp socket: aa.bb.cc.dd:10002
> <- xx.yy.zz.aa:5792, tcp socket: aa.bb.cc.dd:43006 <- 22.33.44.55:10000)
> to blocking mode^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,628 stop(client connection lost, Protocol(None))^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,628 removing socket
> /home/ubuntu/.xpra/ip-aa-bb-cc-dd-proxy-7553^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,638 proxy instance 7553 stopped^[[0m
>  
> Here is the log from the server itself
>  
> 2016-08-31 22:28:47,738 New unix-domain connection received on
> /home/ubuntu/.xpra/ip-aa-bb-cc-dd-11^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,974 New tcp connection received from
> 22.33.44.55:43006^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,977 Handshake complete; enabling connection^[[0m
> ^[[31m2016-08-31 22:29:00,980 Error setting up the source's DBUS
> server:^[[0m
> ^[[31m2016-08-31 22:29:00,980  No module named dbus^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,981 Python/Gtk2 Microsoft Windows 7 client version
> 0.16.3-r12203^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,981  connected from 'MAGRAWAL’ as 'ubuntu' -
> 'magrawal'^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,981 via {'': 'linux2', 'name': 'Linux Ubuntu 16.04
> xenial', 'machine': 'x86_64', 'platform':
> 'Linux-4.4.0-36-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial',
> 'architecture': ['64bit', 'ELF'], 'release': '4.4.0-36-generic',
> 'processor': 'Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v2 @ 2.50GHz',
> 'linux_distribution': ['Ubuntu', '16.04', 'xenial']} proxy version
> unknown on 'ip-aa-bb-cc-dd'^[[0m
> ^[[33m2016-08-31 22:29:00,981 Warning: proxy version may not be
> compatible: remote version not available!^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,982  using h264 as primary encoding also available:^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,982  vp9, vp8, png, png/P, png/L, rgb24, jpeg,
> rgb32^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,990  client root window size is 1920x1080 with 1
> display:^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,990  Default (508x285 mm - DPI: 96x96)^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:00,990    DISPLAY1 (677x381 mm - DPI: 72x72)^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,017 setting key repeat rate from client: 500ms delay
> / 33ms interval^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,018 keyboard mapping already configured (skipped)^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,629 client has requested disconnection: server
> shutdown (client connection lost)^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,629 Disconnecting client 22.33.44.55:43006:^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,629  client request^[[0m
> 2016-08-31 22:29:01,630 xpra client 5 disconnected.^[[0m
> 
> 
> Regards, Mukul ( https://sites.google.com/site/mukulagrawal )
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 31, 2016 4:05 AM, Antoine Martin via shifter-users
> <shifter-users at lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 30/08/16 23:52, Mukul Agrawal via shifter-users wrote:
>> I am running xpra server 0.15 that I got from the latest winswitch repo.
>> Started proxy like that shown in your basic usage example ProxyServer
> – Xpra
>>
>> xpra proxy :13 --bind-tcp=0.0.0.0:10000 --auth=allow
>> started a xpra server instance on same machine/same account using
> several different formatsxpra start :11
>> xpra start :11 --bind-tcp=127.0.0.1:10001
>> xpra start :11 --auth=allow --bind-tcp=127.0.0.1:10001
>> When I try to attach to this instance from windows machine using
>> Xpra_cmd attach tcp/user at IP <mailto:user at IP>/10000/11 
>>
>> I get authentication error :- " authentication failed: this server
> requires authentication, please provide a password."
> I assume you must be using an older distribution like Ubuntu Trusty?
> 
> Please try with the current beta packages, the next release will support
> those older distribution versions and it includes a large number of
> fixes for the proxy server:
> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/952
> http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/1264
> Many of those features and fixes are not available in the branch you are
> using.
> 
> Cheers
> Antoine
> 
>>
>> Another problem
>> xpra stop :13 will not stop the proxy.I again get a message asking for
> a password.
>>  Regards,
>> Mukul
>> ( https://sites.google.com/site/mukulagrawal
> <https://sites.google.com/site/mukulagrawal>)
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