What is the difference between NoMachine Personal Edition and NoMachine Enterprise Desktop?
NoMachine Personal Edition allows one incoming desktop connection and 4 incoming remote terminal connections from the same device. Perfect for professionals and individuals on the move, this solution offers powerful remote access, file and device sharing capabilities, screen-blanking, guest-desktop sharing, remote management capabilities and more. The product is activated with a license file.
NoMachine Enterprise Desktop permits unlimited incoming connections, so that multiple users can connect to view and interact with the same physical desktop. Enterprise Desktop is licensed on an annual subscription basis and a subscription is required for each machine you want to remotely access. In addition to the rich feature-list of the Personal Edition, it also offers web-based access, a VPN system and can be added to any Cloud Server. As with all NoMachine for Enterprise subscriptions, Enterprise Desktop Subscription includes technical assistance. The product is activated with a license file.
Compare the two products here.
So how do you connect to a computer where you have installed the Personal Edition or the Enterprise Desktop? On the device you want to connect from, you can install any NoMachine package because all NoMachine software provides the client component for starting remote access connections. Alternatively, there is Enterprise Client which is a scaled-down client application only. There is also a NoMachine app for mobile which enables connections from iOS and Android devices. There is no limit on the number of outgoing "over-IP" connections you can start from any NoMachine client.
The computer you want to access (the "server") can be a physical host or a virtual machine, it makes no difference. Pre-requisite to installing any NoMachine software package is that there is a desktop environment installed and that users remotely accessing the machine have a system account there. Where guest desktop sharing is enabled on the server, connecting users do not require a system account but the owner of the desktop must authorize the connection.
Enterprise Desktop Subscription or Enterprise Desktop Subscription Pack?
For companies looking to enable remote access on multiple computers, it’s also available as a cost-effective bundle of licenses. A Subscription Pack provides a cost-effective bundle of 10 subscription files, one for each remote host being accessed.
Details about Enterprise Desktop for remote access are available here: https://www.nomachine.com/enterprise/enterprise-desktop-products/enterprise-desktop
