open source alternative to net support school

[goodhead]

does any one know of a reliable alternative to netsupport school.

Software to control and monitor pc screens in a suite.

[ChrisH]

LinuxGirl just posted in another thread about

http://sourceforge.net/projects/teachercp/

She hasnt go it working yet though .

[goodhead]

theres no installer.

is that a linux system?

[Geoff]

It's java based.

[CyberNerd]

Java.
Looks a bit early days... v0.1

1) start a VNC server on every computer (teacher and students)

- all the vnc servers on the student machines have to be configured
with the same password

2) Create a configuration file for the student modules (an example is provided)

3) Start the student module on the student computers

java -jar student.jar

--- or ---

double click on student.jar

The configuration will be loaded from the file "student.properties" in
the current directory.

4) Start the teacher module on the teacher computer, configuration options will
be asked.

java -jar teacher.jar

--- or ---

Double click on teacher.jar

[goodhead]

we wont use vnc in this school. We used to use it on win 2k as a means of remote access to all pcs. Kids got hold of the password and had great fun shutting pcs downs.

What we need is somethink like netop school.

[CyberNerd]

doesn't VNC install in view only mode - so you can't shut down

[mark]

ABTutor seems to be a favourite here. (sorry - you asked for Open Source - I was reading your first post )

[NetworkGeezer]

Is there any particular reason it has to be open source. As Mark says AB Tutor is a cheap alternative.

[Geoff]

we wont use vnc in this school. We used to use it on win 2k as a means of remote access to all pcs. Kids got hold of the password and had great fun shutting pcs downs.

What we need is somethink like netop school.

Look at UltraVNC.

http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

You can use your standard domain login instead of a fixed password.

http://www.uvnc.com/features/authent....html#mslogon2

[SpuffMonkey]

we wont use vnc in this school. We used to use it on win 2k as a means of remote access to all pcs. Kids got hold of the password and had great fun shutting pcs downs.

What we need is somethink like netop school.

AB Tutor here - its cheap and pretty good - afraid our experience with NetOp was awful - I could never recommend it.

[linuxgirlie]

Still haven't managed to get it to work, but was busy sorting out an open source day we are having on Monday, I will take another look this weekend, but you say that you don't want to run vnc.... hmmmm, how did the students access vnc after they got the password? When we had it installed on our 2K network, we got a regedit that hide the icon, so they couldn't get to it that way.

[BKGarry]

MST Software has an open source program for windows called lanview

here is a link

LanView3

I know a lot of people in kent have been looking into this with promosing results

[rdhawkins]

does any one know of a reliable alternative to netsupport school.

Software to control and monitor pc screens in a suite.

Out of interest what is you main reason for finding an alternative to NetSupport School? Is it primarily cost or have you experienced some problems with the software?

I'm not trying to sell you NSS just curious

Rob
NetSupport Ltd

[linuxgirlie]

The only problem with LanView, from I have seen (please correct me if I am wrong) is that it will only work on a Windows Server, otherwise I would of used that!!

Is lanview under the GPL?