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(Assuming this is the correct place for the new NM Network product?)
Is is possible to remotely deploy via script NM and connect it to the NM Network?
What I would like to do is have a powershell script that installs (silently so will be installed using chocolatey) NM on a remote machine and configures / fetches the generated Machine ID & Access ID and locks it down to my email address.
Can this be done?
Hi, absolutely. NoMachine can be installed in silent/very silent mode on Windows. There is an article with instructions on how to do that here: https://kb.nomachine.com/AR07K00682. To do it remotely, as an admin user, you’ll have to first connect to the target host over SSH or similar tool.
You can also leverage the
--networkaddkey to add the machine to Network and set its availability, i.e. lock it down to your email address (or others).nxserver --networkadd [--visible-set all|<list>|nobody] [--accessid [<code>]|--noaccessid] Publish this computer in the NoMachine Network. By default it is visible to all users, this corresponds to option '--visible-set all'. Use '--visible-set <list>' to provide a comma-separated list of Ids of NoMachine Network users who will be able to see this computer or use '--visible-set nobody' to hide this computer to all users. A random access ID code is assigned by default, otherwise set a nine numbers code by means of '--accessid <code>'. Specify --noaccessid to not use the access ID code.Brilliant @Britgirl, works perfectly.
For future searchers here is a very simple powershell script that will install NM on a Windows machine using choco and assign it to an email address. Chocolately also performs a silent install:
choco install nomachine -y & 'C:\Program Files\NoMachine\bin\nxserver.exe' --networkadd --visible-set your@email-address.comThe output of nxserver will also give you the Machine ID and Access ID required to add the connection to your address book.
@Britgirl I know that NM can be remotely installed on macOS but I can’t get either of the ID’s using the same syntax as for Windows. Even with the system extension enabled, privacy etc it doesn’t want to work.
Any suggestions?
Hi, what macOS version is it? Have you tried removing ‘NoMachine’ from Accessibility and Screen Recording, and then adding it again?
” I can’t get either of the ID’s using the same syntax” – do you mean you can’t add the macOS machine to NoMachine Network?
The procedure to add a machine to Network is the same you already used on Windows, by running the command
/etc/NX/nxserverwith the same options. As you probably already noticed, a remote configuration is not entirely possible on macOS because of privacy permissions and their design, requiring a user to interact with settings on the physical desktop as security measure. Remote install of software requiring security permissions, even through administrator account, is pretty critical and so we approve Apple’s take on this aspect.If you run the correct command, but you still don’t get the expected result, do you mind sharing the terminal output so we can check what’s happening?
This is what I get when running it on a Mac (permissions etc already granted):
bash-3.2# /etc/NX/nxserver –networkadd –visible-set myemail@address.com
NX> 500 ERROR: Invalid command: ‘networkadd’Ah, I’ve just realised what is causing the problem.
I use brew to remotely install NM but it’s installing version 8.16.1_2 which is the latest version on homebrew.
Can someone update the package on homebrew please?!
We’re not maintaining the Homebrew cask. You could install the software from a terminal (remember what we said about security permissions) by using the
hdiutil mountcommand to mount the DMG, and theinstaller -packagecommand to install the PKG from the mounted volume.
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