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Have 2 PCs in the same room. Both are running Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon. Use one as the host and the other as the client.
Have installed NoMachine on both host and client PCs. Both PCs are connected to the same router, and to the internet. On my host PC, opened NoMachine and came to No computers were found on your local network and <Click here to create a connection>. So I did. Then, came to Add connection and Machine address, Under Machine address, Name is required. Name of what? host? client? what should the name be? Or anything for the name?
Help, please?
Thank you.
dianoban99Hi DiaNobb, both your computers are on the same LAN, so you can use the IP address of the target machine to connect, although if your two computers are on the same LAN, they should be able to see each other. Do you see the “No computers were found on your local network” message when you are in the Machines panel on both computers, or just on the one? We aren’t aware of issues with broadcasting, but could it be that you have a VPN running or a firewall blocking our multicast. So, please check that.
Starting a manual connection is simple. In ‘Name’ you can use anything you like, it’s not obligatory 🙂 If you don’t insert a name. one will be inserted for you, by default it is “Connection to xx.x.x.xx”. In ‘Host’ insert the local IP address of the target machine. This is obligatory.
To know the IP address, go to the target machine, click on the !M icon in the system tray and click ‘Show server status’. Take a look at Fig. 2 in the following guide to see an example of what you will see: https://www.nomachine.com/support/documents/getting-started-with-nomachine#local. The URL to use in the example is nx://192.168.1.4:4000.
Make a note of your IP, go back to the computer you want to connect from, open the Machines panel and insert the IP address, or the complete URL, into the Search machines field and press Enter. Or, like you did, you can click ‘Add’ and insert the IP address in the ‘Host’ field.
Just for the record, that particular image in the guide is also showing a Machine Id because the computer is on NoMachine Network and so can be reached using the Machine Id over the Internet, from outside the LAN. If you’ve just signed up for a NoMachine account, you have a free 7-day Personal Evaluation available to try if you’re interested connecting to your computers from outside your LAN.
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