Which NoMachine product do I need?

[isaacdevops]

Hey all, currently been using NoMachine for a while on the free machine and wondering what my options for purchasing a license are?

My use case is:

I have Windows PC A and Windows PC B and a Macbook. I want to be able to concurrently nomachine from PC A and PC B at the same time into the Macbook. When i do this right now, it kicks out one of the PCs saying “session was terminated because connection limit was reached” because I’m using the free version, so to fix this, what license or product do i need to buy?

I think this would be possible with buying one enterprise license for just the macbook since it’s the “host” and the others are clients correct? Or would i need a license for all three?  I’d like to buy the cheapest license possible to allow this since I’m a home user just doing this non-commercial purposes.

Semi-Unrelated followup question, but since I’m asking about buying the enterprise license, with the enterprise license, if I nomachine into a system can I launch virtual displays to simulate a “multi-monitor” setup on that machine I’m remoting into? Would this let me have two NoMachine windows on PC A into the Mac, one NoMachine window for each monitor on the mac in view at the same time on PC A? because it sounds like that’s possible with the enterprise license features but let me know if I’ve misunderstood, thank you!

[Britgirl]

Hi, welcome to our Forums!

What NoMachine counts is the incoming connections on the host (or “server”), not the outgoing connections on the clients. So you are correct in your assumption 🙂 You can start as many connections as you want from any of your machines, but the server computer you want to connect to must have a NoMachine product that lets multiple connections in, if 1 connection is not enough.

So, you say that you want to connect to the Mac from both Windows PCs at the same time. On the Mac you need Enterprise Desktop. On your Windows PCs, you can stick with NoMachine (free version) or simply opt for Enterprise Client if you don’t want the NoMachine server component installed. That’s entirely up to you. To install Enterprise Desktop, you need to uninstall the free NoMachine package.

If I nomachine into a system, can I launch virtual displays to simulate a “multi-monitor” setup on that machine I’m remoting into? Would this let me have two NoMachine windows on PC A into the Mac, one NoMachine window for each monitor on the mac in view at the same time on PC A? because it sounds like that’s possible with the enterprise license features but let me know if I’ve misunderstood, thank you!

Creating “virtual displays”, what we call virtual desktops, is a feature of the NoMachine for Linux products.  On Mac and Windows you get access to the physical display running on the system, it’s not possible to create virtual displays.

You hint at multi-monitors. There can be multi-monitors on the server side so that when you connect to the Mac in the current NoMachine version, you can switch between the monitors (see more about this here: https://www.nomachine.com/switching-the-view-between-multi-monitors-during-a-remote-desktop-session). But you will have one NoMachine window. However, if I understand what you would like to achieve, you might be interested in about a planned feature that will let you display each remote monitor on the server in a separate window on the client side. So you will be able to have one NoMachine window for each monitor attached to the server.

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