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

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:sheflug-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robin Wood
> Sent: 16 January 2008 12:07
> To: david.willington@xxxxxxxxxxxx; sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] open source solution for controlling a 
> classroomof windows computers
> 
> 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? 
> 
> 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.

I agree with Robin. Take a look at UltraVNC (uvnc.com - the web site is
very slow at the moment). UltraVNC has some capability for Windows
authentication although we have only ever used classic here. There's
also an optional encryption plugin which should defeat all but the most
dedicated sniffers and uvnc also has the extras like chat windows and
file transfer that vanilla VNC doesn't.

The uvnc viewer is also nice because you can have several windows open
in different tabs.



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