[K12OSN] Setting up VNC remote support

[Jon Williams]

Open Office, Firefox, Java, Opera 9.27 (for a crappy legacy webside that
only works in IE and that version of Opera), rdesktop (with printer
redirection)...and I think that's about it.  We have a couple of computers
in both of our inpatient units that are set up for family members to use.
I'll likely set up a whole range of games for the kids.

I'm busy setting up K12LTSP to test fl_teachertool.  It looks exactly like
what we are looking for.  I'm also very intrigued with iTALC (
http://en.opensuse.org/Italc).  I'm setting up another test station with
opensuse to play around with it since that package appears to be in their
repository and fairly easy to set up.  If I like it I'm going to try and set
that up on K12Linux.

I have about another month before I'm testing this out in production in a
couple of our agencies.  Maybe Robert will have a beta version of
fl_teachertool ready to go by then and I can help give him some feedback.

Thanks again for the great feedback.  I was at a dead end and you folks
helped point me in the right direction.



On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:22 PM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com>wrote:

> What apps will you be using?
>
> If you are using primarily office types of apps, K12LTSP is rock solid.
> K12Linux better integrates Firefox/Flash, imho, and can take advantage
> of more powerful clients.
>
> If you really need desktop support and monitoring, fl_teachertool is
> absolutely mind-blowing. It does way more than simply grabbing a screen
> session.
>
> btw, put a freenx server on your LTSP servers if you haven't already.
> It's brilliant to come in from a remote location with FreeNX, running
> fl_teachertool and getting a user up and running before they've even
> finished their call to you.
>
> Regards,
> William
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:00 -0400, k12osn-request at redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Jeff Siddall <news at siddall.name>
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Setting up VNC remote support
> > To: "Support list for open source software in schools."
> >         <k12osn at redhat.com>
> > Message-ID: <4AE70D48.9010706 at siddall.name>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >
> > Jon Williams wrote:
> > > K12Linux. Thanks for the great info.  I'll check out K12LTSP.  My
> > hope
> > > is to roll this out to about 40 of our agencies throughout 2 states.
> > So
> > > I've got to get remote support to a point where it is very solid.
> >
> > I wrote up a solution which WFM:
> >
> > http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/X11vncLocalApp
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
>
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