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== NX Clients ==
===PCs or Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier===
# Go to the [http://www.nomachine.com/ 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 [[Accessing Hoffman2#SSH_-_Command_Line|SSH session]] to Hoffman2 and run the command
#***:<pre>$ cat /etc/nxserver/client.id_dsa.key</pre>
#***: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''
#*Click ''Save''
# Now you can click ''Login'' on the main window and a GUI environment connection will be established with a Hoffman2 login node.

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