Execute the following command to allow communication over port 4000. Please run the below command if you have the firewall activated on your server. However, on our clean OS installs, UFW is disabled by default. To access your remote desktop you need to add allow rules to your firewall. Once you have made the changes restart NoMachine using: $ sudo /etc/NX/nxserver -restart Configure firewallīy default, on our LAMP/LEMP stacks, UFW is enabled by default. $ sudo nano /usr/NX/etc/node.cfgįor Gnome: DefaultDesktopCommand '/usr/bin/gnome-session'įor Ubuntu Mate: DefaultDesktopCommand '/usr/bin/mate-session'įor Cinnamon: DefaultDesktopCommand '/usr/bin/cinnamon'įor KDE Plasma: DefaultDesktopCommand '/usr/bin/startplasma-x11'įor LXDE: DefaultDesktopCommand '/usr/bin/startlxde'įor Xfce4: DefaultDesktopCommand '/usr/bin/startxfce4' Open the node.cfg file found in /usr/NX/etc/node.cfg and change value of DefaultDesktopCommand to an appropriate value based on the desktop environment you installed. Configuring NoMachineĭepending upon the desktop environment you installed (from one of our guides), you need to change the Default Desktop Command of NoMachine. Wait for a few seconds for the installation to complete. To install the downloaded deb file run the following command: $ sudo dpkg -install nomachine*.deb Please visit the official website for the latest version. Note: At the time of writing latest version of NoMachine is 7.7. To download the NoMachine deb file first SSH into your server and fetch the file. The NoMachine server has to be downloaded from the official website as NoMachine cannot be installed from Ubuntu’s APT repo. A running Webdock Ubuntu cloud instance.The nxd service will then be automatically respawned. The nxd service will then be automatically respawned.This can be verified by executing these commands: To do that:ġ) Retrieve pid () of current nxd process from the output of this command: If for some reasons the nxd service needs to be restarted and the 'nxserver -restart nxd' command doesn't help because of an inconsistent status of the process, it's possible to manually terminate the current nxd process and start a new one. Connected clients will stay connected to their sessions while nxd is stopped or restarted. Running sessions or disconnected session are not affected by a stopped nxd, just new connection by NX protocol will be not possible. If the nxd service is not running for some reasons, the client will receive a message like this: The Network Server for accepting connection by NX protocol is nxd and is listening on port 4000 by default,

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