Connecting to Windows 10 machine

[stinga]

I am being dim…

I cannot, for the life of me work out how to connect to a Windows 10 machine.

There is loads of info about connecting to a linux box, that I can do with no issues.

What info do you need to know?

Windows 10

1 Windows user called tx3 with admin rights and no password.

This runs an application that starts at boot time and we need to connect from time to time to investigate issues.

On the Win10, I used nxserver to add a user called fred (I am pretty sure I know the password)

Win10box is using nx protocol

But when ever I try to connect from a Windows 7 box I get ‘Authentication failure’

Same Win7 connects to linux fine using nx protocol

I tried to delete the fred user with nxserver, without success and don’t seem to be able to change the password.

All in all very unsatisfactory 🙁

I need the Win10 box to bootable without password so we can run the application.

I feel I am missing something very basic (I am not really a Windows person)

[kroy]

Remote login to Windows with empty password is forbidden by Windows policies: https://www.nomachine.com/AR05L00802.

But  it is possible to connect without using system password. There are two ways to achieve it.

1. Connect with using private key authentication (https://www.nomachine.com/AR02L00785).

2. Enable NoMachine database. To do it – edit server.cfg as an administrator (in the default it’s located in the %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\NoMachine\etc directory).Uncomment and change the keys to following values:

EnableUserDB 1
EnablePassDB 1

More details you can find here: https://www.nomachine.com/DT02O00125#10.1.

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