How to disable authentication for NoMachine web client in version 8

[charon]

How to cancel authentication when I connect to NoMachine’s web client. That is, I want anyone with access to the URL to be able to open the remote desktop directly from the URL.

[Britgirl]

Doing so would require that we include the password into the URL, the URL that you need to hand over to permit others to connect to the same server. The password would be then visible to others, for example in the URL bar of the browser or in the “URL file”. We chose to not do so for security concerns. You also say: “I want anyone with access to the URL to be able to open the remote desktop directly from the URL”. But this would also allow anyone with access to the URL to see your password! We are working at this. The simplest solution is to use, for the password, the same “scrambling” algorithm that the Player is using to save the password in the .nxs file, but still the password could be easily “reversed”. I don’t know, we don’t know. This is still to be decided, what do you all in the forums think???

[charon]

I modify the following configuration in the default.nxs file according to the official documents-2.1. Storing Username and Password(assuming that my user name and password are “apple” and “0000” respectively).

But when I visit the site (https://SERVER:PORT/?default), I still need to enter a password, which means there is no automatic login.

Can you tell me how to save the password in the .nxs file or  include the password into the URL?

[Britgirl]

You previously wrote: I want anyone with access to the URL to be able to open the remote desktop directly from the URL.

I explained that it is not possible highlighting the security reasons.

Can you tell me how to save the password in the .nxs file or  include the password into the URL?

Including the password is not possible as I already mentioned. To save the password, you can use the checkbox to save the username and password during the first connection. The next time you use that link in your same browser, you won’t be asked for the password. But, if you pass that URL to a friend and they use it in their browser, the first time they connect, they will require the username and password. They can tick the same checkbox to save and from the successive login, they won’t be prompted to input the password.

But when I visit the site (https://SERVER:PORT/?default), I still need to enter a password, which means there is no automatic login.

Can you provide the exact steps you are taking to connect? Also, knowing what OS you installed which NoMachine product and what browser you are using would be useful for us to check.

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