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<h1 id="setting-up-nomachine-for-ubuntu-desktop-on-campus">Setting up NoMachine for Ubuntu desktop on campus</h1>
<p><a href="https://www.nomachine.com/">NoMachine</a> is a remote desktop application. With it, you can log into a remote Ubuntu desktop running on the Hutch servers. This let's you use the remote Ubuntu desktop's terminal application for SSHing into the compute servers we'll be using for the class.</p>
<h2 id="advantages">Advantages</h2>
<p>One advantage to this is that for the parts of the class that involve editing text/code files, you can use a GUI text editor called GEdit, which comes with Ubuntu. This will likely be easier for beginners to use than a terminal based text editor.</p>
<p>This is possible because the home directories on the compute servers are also mounted into the Ubuntu desktop sessions, meaning you can read and write data/files in both environments.</p>
<h2 id="disadvantages">Disadvantages</h2>
<p>You may find the virtual desktops have high latency, and aren't as responsive as the text based text editors. Also, it's just extra work to have to log into a remote desktop, and then from there into a remote terminal session.</p>
<h2 id="instructions">Instructions</h2>
<p>First, <a href="https://www.nomachine.com/">download and install NoMachine</a> on the laptop you'll be using for the class.</p>
<p>Next, open up NoMachine, and click the "New" button in the orange bar. Name your connection, so you'll remember what it is (e.g., either "lynx" or "manx" (see below)).</p>
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<li>Set protocol to <strong>NX</strong></li>
<li>Set host to <strong>lynx</strong>, <strong>lynx.fhcrc.org</strong>, <strong>manx</strong>, or <strong>manx.fhcrc.org</strong>, and port to <strong>4000</strong></li>
<li>Set authentication to <strong>Password</strong></li>
<li><strong>Don't use a proxy</strong></li>
<li>Name your connection so you can remember what it is.</li>
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<p>Once you have the remote Ubuntu desktop running, open up the terminal application:</p>
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<li>Click the square button in the upper left.</li>
<li>Type in "Terminal"</li>
<li>Click on the Terminal icon (the one with <code>>_</code> on it)</li>
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<p>Now try running <code>ssh <username>@rhino</code>, using your Hutch password when prompted. If you get a prompt that looks roughly like</p>
<pre><code><username>@rhino04:~$ </code></pre>
<p>then everything has been set up correctly.</p>
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