I created /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and pasted the following into it, ensuring that Username was set to my regular user account (otherwise, my session never showed) This time, I saw that it should have installed the nxnode -mirror service, but no such service was running. Messing with shadowing in the configs proved fruitless and decided to pour over NX's documentation one last time. Then reinstalled everything across the board and still no dice. I uninstalled everything across the board. I spent about a day troubleshooting that, and eventually tried a different version of XQuartz. I thought, then, that maybe there was an issue with xauth. I checked to ensure that PhysicalDesktopAuthorization 0 was set in server.cfg and sure enough it was. Now, initially when I'd attach, it would hang at 'Requesting users authorization' but no window would pop up to request the authorization.

If you're quick, sometimes you can catch the session before it disappears then click Attach. Once I connected, my session would appear for a split second then disappear. When prompted for Desktop type, I selected Shadow. Initially, I installed XQuartz X11 2.7.4 and NX for OSX 4.0.181-7.Īfter adding the nx user to my allowed list of SSH logins, connecting was easy using the account I use to login to my MacBook Pro everyday. Well, installing it is easy, getting it to work is another story.įirst, starting with Mountain Lion, Apple no longer ships OS X with X11 already installed so XQuartz must be downloaded and installed manually. Installing NX Server on OS X is challenging. NoMachine's NX client works on Windows, OS X and Linux and even works well on roaming profiles. All traffic goes over SSH and while the performance isn't as great as Windows' RDP, it's faster and more secure than VNC. NX, if you aren't familiar with it, is generally a PITA to setup, but well worth the pain (on Linux anyway). I recently discovered NoMachine's NX while looking for an easy way to encrypt VNC.

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