You can quit NoMachine, and your connection to 'nx.' will be saved, and your previous Desktop session should be saved also, and you can reconnect to it.Now when you resize your NoMachine Desktop window, the remote display will resize appropriately to fit the window.Click the left arrow in the upper left (two times) to return to your Linux Desktop (or press the 'esc' key twice).You can set it (or verify the setting) by selecting the NoMachine menu icon in the upper right of the desktop, and select 'Show the menu panel'.A useful display configuration setting to know about is 'resize remote display'.After clicking through the welcome screens (which explain some configuration options), you will get a Linux MATE Desktop environment.Double click on 'Create a new virtual desktop'.Click on 'New desktop' to start a new session.Enter your SLAC Unix username and password when prompted.click on the 'Protocol' drop-down menu, and choose 'SSH'.next to 'Host', enter the hostname: nx.next to 'Name', enter a name for this connection, such as nx.Download and install the NoMachine Enterprise client application (or find it in the 'Self Service' Jamf application on centrally managed Macs).This is to allow for a server maintenance window and to allow for updated kernel RPMs to be activated which fix security vulnerabilities. The NoMachine servers are rebooted monthly.

After connecting to the NoMachine gateway, then ssh to other SLAC machines to perform actual compute intensive work. The NoMachine servers are intended to be gateways into other SLAC resources. Do not attempt to do heavy computing on the NoMachine servers.Email if you need assistance or have storage questions. Data should be stored on AFS, GPFS, NFS, or other networked filesystems. The local home directory on NoMachine is for local/temporary files only.

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