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--- services:remote-access:x2go [2013/08/07 09:00] – glaubitz
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 ====== Connect to Linux hosts through x2go from a MacOS X computer (graphical login) ======
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+Open your web browser and navigate to the x2go client download website here:
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+[[http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goclient|x2go client download website]]
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+Click on "Download X2go for MacOS X". Click on "releases", then the latest available release (4.0.1.0 at the time this document was written) and download the file **x2goclient-4.0.1.0.dmg**.
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+In Safari, find the file you just downloaded in the list of downloaded files and double-click it:
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+This will open a folder containing the **x2goclient** application. Drag and drop the icon into your **Applications** folder:
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+Find the **x2goclient** application icon in your **Applications** folder and double-click it:
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+MacOS X will pop up the following dialog to ask you whether you trust the application you just downloaded from the x2go website, click **Open**:
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+The main window of the X2go client will open and show a dialog to configure a new session upon first start:
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+Use "Session name" to name this session for later reference, type the name of the computer you want to connect to into the field "Host" (login.physik.fu-berlin.de in this case), your username in the field "Login" and use the drop-down box below "Session type" to choose the graphical user interface you would like to use for login (the same way you would do when logging in to a Linux computer locally), then click "OK":
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+After clicking "OK", the main window should look like the following screenshot. Click the white area in the upper right which is indicated with an ellipse here:
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+This will initiate the connection and ask you for your login credentials:
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+You will be asked whether you trust the remote host, click "Yes". This dialog will be shown upon the first connection only:
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+The connection will now be established and you should be presented with your familiar Linux desktop:
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 ====== Connect to Linux hosts through x2go from a Linux computer (graphical login) ======