VNC in a classroom

[Albert Crosby]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 mike "at" cognitioninc.com wrote:

> I have a classroom situation where an Instructor needs to "Control" a
> vnc server and 15 students "View" the Instructor's actions. Can I use
> vnc to accomplish this?
>
> The vnc server is *not* running on the Instructor's machine, all
> participants are accessing the vnc server remotely, and the vnc server
> is running on NT.

It can be done, yes.  However, you'll find that the updates to the
students are very slow for 15 clients with the Windows VNC Server --
unless the current version has changed dramatically. 

What someone suggested in the past was using a Unix box as a proxy.  Have
the Unix box viewing the WinVNC server that the instructor is controlling.
The students then view the Unix VNC server.  The Unix VNC server is
supposed to be much better at handling multiple clients.

Albert


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