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

[MkII]

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/authentication.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?

[BKGarry]

I do believe it is, it is freeware i will investigate when im bk @ wrk monday

[Guest metalmonkey]

LanView only works on Windows, true. But it doesn't have to be a Windows Server. It can be Win2000, XP or 2003.

 

It's not open source and not released under the GPL. It's freeware.

[linuxgirlie]

Ah, thought so! Thanks metalmonkey

[goodhead]

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

 

we bought originally 100 licences at £21.00 each + maintainance

 

6 months ago we bought 14 more licences + maintainance.

 

We are now told that the maintaince is running out at the end of march.

Original quote for renewal was just under £500. I wasn't aware about how much it was likly to cost every year. Certainly didn'nt know that we only bought 6months worth of support the last time.

 

I have only called them a few times, one time they never called me back like they said they would.

 

Ok they have agreed to do the maintainance for £350, its still alot of money to pay every year.

 

I've had a look at the one mentioned in a previous post here called abtutor and it looks just as good as netsupport and is cheap.

[netadmin]

Lanview sounds good on paper, but at least for us, did not work that great. It slowed the workstations down and constantly needed reinstallation.

 

We have since purchased a program called Netcontrol2. It seems to run better.

[gekk]

Hi I'm using Teacher Control Panel from http://sourceforge.net/projects/teachercp/ but it is black screen from both mac and windows. It appears in my teacher windows (all student windows) "not connected to vnc server". Please help.

 

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Hi I'm using Teacher Control Panel from http://sourceforge.net/projects/teachercp/ but it is black screen from both mac and windows. It appears in my teacher windows (all student windows) "not connected to vnc server". Please help.