Re: [Sheflug] open source solution for controlling a classroom of windows computers

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 11:02 +0000, David Willington wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a solution to the problem of a teacher wanting to
> take control of student computers in a classroom from the teacher's
> machine? It's windows machines on a largely windows network. Apparently
> there are various prohibitively expensive proprietary solutions available
> but it's not an area I've got any experience of
> 

Sounds like a job for VNC, there are plenty of open source versions out
there so cost isn't an issue.

As VNC runs unencrypted over the network you may have to watch out for
sniffing but if all the teacher is doing is helping the kids there
shouldn't be an issue.

Robin

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