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Accessing client-side data on the cluster through NX

Firstly, this document assumes you are in the Children's network. Also, this is for those users who wants to access data on their Windows client from the cluster through NX session. So follow the procedure below to get this working.

1) Make sure that the folder you are trying to mount through NX is shared from your Windows side.

2) Open "NX Client for Windows" and select the correct session (whichever one is configured to connect to the cluster).

3) Click on the "Configure..." button.

4) Select "Services" tab.

5) Check the "printer and file sharing" checkbox.

6) Select the "Add" button and select the right shared resource under the "Resource" dropdown.

7) By default, the "Mount on" text area has something like $(SHARES)/unused. You can change it to something that makes sense with the name of the folder you are trying to mount. So, for example, if you folder name is folder1, you can change this to $(SHARES)/folder1. $(SHARES) gets translated to MyShares on the server-side. So this share will get mounted at $HOME/MyShares/folder.

8) In the Username/Password area, enter the username and password on the client-side Windows login.

9) Click on the "Save" button to save this configuration.

10) Now connect to the cluster using the "Login" button in the main "NX Client for Windows" window.

11) Once you are logged in, you will see your Windows drive mounted on the cluster under $HOME/MyShares/<ShareName> folder.

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