NX lets you work on our Linux servers using its graphical user interface (GUI). It provides you with a "remote desktop" within a window on your computer. NX provides the convenience of VNC without losing the security of SSH by sending allow traffic through an SSH connection. 

NX is essentially a graphical version of the older text-only (command line) programs Telnet, RSH, and SSH, and it provides the same security as the latter (unlike VNC). It's similar to programs such as Windows Remote Desktop and Apple Remote Desktop, except that it's cross-platform.

To use NX, you must have the NX client software installed on your computer. Macintosh computers must also have extra software called X11. In addition, there must be an NX server on the destination computer; on the Amherst network, NX servers are available on IT's Unix computers, Romulus and Remus, and the Cluster.

To install NX on your Mac, download it from nomachine's website. Nomachine has already provided detailed instructions for the installation, which can be found here.

To install NX on your Linux machine, pick the correct installer from nomachine's website. There is currently no documentation on installing/using NX on a Linux machine.

• Installing NX for Windows
• Using NX on Windows

Installing NX

• Download the NX client 
• Start Install: 

Using NX

• Start "NX Connection Wizard"

• Change mode from "KDE" to "GNOME"

• Finish

• Start NX enter you SECS USERNAME and PASSWORD to login

• The first time you log into a server you will need to accept the certificate. Choose "Yes."

• You should now be connected:

If you want to NX into the server again in the future click the icon you created.