to use nomachine, you first have to download the client, see: https://www.nomachine.com/
The client is free to use but the (free) server only provides one client connection at the time.
In order to use it, you will also have to activate the McGill VPN .
Also worth mentioning is the notion of proxy … for x2go, it refers to a ssh proxy, namely login.bic.mni.mcgill.ca
…while for nomachine it requires a web proxy, which we don’t provide, so don’t use that option!
Use the NX mode on port 4000 to connect to your workstations on bic-wks.mni.mcgill.ca
An IMPORTANT note here since we migrated all workstations to a private network and DNS for that subnet was migrated to the wks.mni.mcgill.ca domain… using your full workstation name in your configuration will not resolve and your connection attempt will fail. While there are various methods to circumvent that problem, the sure way to solve this is to use your workstation’s IP in the configuration.
So for example, if your workstation’s name is timon, use the following command to identify it’s IP:
~$ host timon
timon.bic-wks.mni.mcgill.ca has address 10.68.1.184
then use 10.68.1.184 in your configuration.