VNC in a classroom

[Peirce, Brandon]

AFIK, you cannot achieve that *directly* if you want to protect against the
students amusing themselves by competing with the instructor for control of
the mouse....  The "Disable Remote Keyboard & Pointer" option is either
active or inactive at the *server* level--you cannot use it on 15 clients
and not on the 16th.
(But having said than, there is a view-only connection option that the
*client* can activate. I guess that would do what you want until some
prankster discovers it can be turned off.)

What you can do is have a VNC server on the "demo" machine *and* the
instructor's machine. The instructor then runs a client on his/her machine
to control the demo machine, while the students watch the instructor's
machine. If the instructor runs the viewer full-screen, the students would
hardly notice the difference.

--
Brandon PEIRCE ( mailto:BPeirce "at" be.imshealth.com )
Principal Support Engineer
IMS HEALTH Strategic Technologies ( http://st.imshealth.com )
Product & Technology Delivery Group (Waterloo, Belgium)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mike "at" cognitioninc.com [mailto:mike "at" cognitioninc.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 9:17 PM
> To: vnc-list "at" uk.research.att.com
> Subject: VNC in a classroom
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike Gehl
> Cognition Inc.
> 
> 
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