NoMachine provides a server functionality to allow the forwarding of the NX session, via SSH, to any machine which has exported its X display for the connection.

NoMachine also provides all the tools necessary to be integrated with any server-based computing environment, including those environments where simple X terminals, or remotely bootstrapped, LTSP-style, PCs are deployed on the field.

The general form of the nxserver command is:

--startsession OPTIONS [--display host:port]

OPTIONS is the list of the options that can be specified for configuring the session and should be passed in the format --optionName=value

If the options are not specified, the server will assume the session is unix-default and will start the session according to the user's ~/.xsession file.

The display parameter is optional. Alternatively the nxserver program will assume the display specified in the DISPLAY environment.

How to forward the NX session

- Access the NX server host machine via SSH -X enabling X11 forwarding:

# ssh -X username@nxserverHost

- Run the nxserver --startsession command.

Some examples

Start the unix-default application
/usr/NX/bin/nxserver --startsession

Start a console in floating window mode
/usr/NX/bin/nxserver --startsession --type=unix-application
--application=xterm --rootless=1 

Start a KDE desktop
/usr/NX/bin/nxserver --startsession --link="modem"  type="unix-kde" 
--geometry="800x600"

Start a GNOME desktop
/usr/NX/bin/nxserver --startsession --link="adsl"  --type="unix-gnome" 
--geometry="1024x768" --keyboard="pc102�57us"