Nomachine Addon - passing credentials

Hello,

Here is the difference between both modes:
"Using profile file name on local disk": This will load the NXS file from the path specified in the RDM entry every time you open the NoMachine session.
"Using stored profile in session": When saving an entry with this option, if you entered a path for an NXS file, it will save the contents of the file in the entry itself. What this means is you can share the contents of an NXS file with multiple RDM users without requiring them to have the same NXS file in the same path as specified in the entry.

At the time of creation of the add-on there wasn't any way to directly specify the username and password when starting NoMachine. Do you know if there is a help topic on their website for passing the username/password through the NoMachine application's command-line, or specifying it in the NXS file?

Regards,

Thanks Hubert. I'm disappointed to hear the "Credentials" field from the addon is not used, it's confusing that it is there to begin with. I spent a fair amount of time time trying to get it to work.



Attached is an NXS file, which is just plain XML, view in Notepad++ or any XML editor. It looks to me like it might be possible to pass the username and password if RDM created/editted this file on the fly.





Some background on why we want this: We have chosen Nomachine Enterprise Desktop because it allows multiple users with multiple accounts (local and domain) to connect to the same desktop at the same time, like a KVM, better then VNC. We want to add RDM on top of that for more control and logging and all the extra features you guys have packed in there.

Thank you for the file example! It does seem possible to specify the username/password in the "<group name="Login">" section under the "user" and "auth" option keys. We could recreate a temporary file to load with these fields filled up with the values set as credentials in RDM.
Would that be good for your use case? You also have to keep in mind this will expose, albeit temporarily, your username and password in clear text since we HAVE to create an NXS file with the username and password inside, since it is the only way to pass this information to the program.

Regards,

Hi Hubert, yes, in our case this kind of integration with Nomachine would be a big selling point for us, and I suspect it would be useful for others as well.

That does sound like a great feature, and it shouldn't be difficult to integrate :) We'll add this to our todo list. I'll keep you updated on the progress, there have been a few other things we've had to finalize for the 11.6 release of RDM.

Regards,

Hi Hubert, please keep me posted on this. Note we have made an initial purchase of 9 copies for testing.

One last question: what is the difference between the "NoMachine Add-on" and the "NX Client Add-on" ? They are both dated 06/11/2014 release and appear to do the same thing... ?

Hello,

The NoMachine add-on uses nxplayer.exe while the NX Client add-on uses nxclient.exe. The NX Client add-on was created by Jason Skuby and approved by us back when us creating an add-on was a slower process (so our clients could participate and create add-ons of their choice).

We have a few other other issues to work out with 11.6.1.0 right now but this should be next on the list.

Regards,

I installed NoMachine on my workstation and saw that the passwords are unfortunately encrypted, so at the present moment we could only try to specify the username.

Regards,

We updated the add-on to support sending the username when the startup mode is "Using stored profile in session". You can download it here http://remotedesktopmanager.com/Home/AddOn#SessionAddOn_NoMachine
You can install it by overriding the .DLL in %localappdata%\Devolutions\RemoteDesktopManager

Can you try it out and give some feedback? Thank you.

Regards,