Hoffman2:Accessing the Cluster-Historical Notes
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NX Clients
PCs or Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier
- Go to the No Machine website and navigate to the Download tab.
- Find the section titled NX Client Products and click on the one for the operating system you are running.
- Download the appropriate installation file and install it on your computer.
- Once it is installed on your computer, start up NX Client.
- The window that appears will ask for:
- Login -- your Hoffman2 username
- Password -- your Hoffman2 password
- Session -- type Hoffman2
- Then click the Configure... button and fill out the necessary information
- Under the General tab
- In the Server section
- Host -- hoffman2.idre.ucla.edu
- Port -- 22
- Key -- Click this button and delete the contents of the window that appears. Open up an SSH session to Hoffman2 and run the command
$ cat /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key
- The output is the key. Copy everything that was printed out and paste it into the Key window in NX Client and click Save.
- In the Desktop section -- Use the drop down menus to select Unix and GNOME
- In the Server section
- Click Save
- Under the General tab
- Now you can click Login on the main window and a GUI environment connection will be established with a Hoffman2 login node.