Hi, I believe that the ver of VNC that comes with V9.0 does allow the same desktop to be seen, but the connection has to be initated from the linux box as it creates a unique password (need to check if this can be overridden). I've never been sucessfull using vanilla VNC with LINUX I never manage more than a chequerd desktop. see... system, remote access, desktop sharing on your "start" button PS Mark Evans Why do all your emails come as attachments? You may have answered this VNC issue, but I've stopped reading your emails - so I suppose the question is moote as I'll not see your reply! :-) Adrian
Steve King wrote:
It's not 100% perfect, but it's very usable. We've only used it to monitor the windows clients, not yet tried it for our linux clients as there's no need for us (yet...)
The issue you might come up against if you do try to use VNC with Linux clients is that the VNC server under Linux works in a very different way from the Windows VNC server. Whilst the Windows VNC server allows the remote viewer to observe activity going on on the Windows desktop, the Linux VNC server is more similar to the X server based model. Log into a Linux based VNC server and you don't see a duplicate of the desktop that the user is working on, rather a separate instance of the default desktop environment of the user that started the VNC server. So you wouldn't be able to see what your pupils are up to.... :(
Cheers,
Tony
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