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We've been using iTalc successfully in our school for about 2+ years on Windows XP. Looking into the features and seeing "execute commands," I am unsure of what I can actually execute, i.e. the syntax, or what commands I can used. It would be great to have the ability to open all computers to a specific web page, if this is possible. Anyone with a better understanding of this?

Hi all, Does anyone know how to, or is there a definitive guide on the installation for iTALC, other by a manual method. The Network Setup is W23003 R2 and XPSP3 Clients with Version 1.0.13. Has anyone installed the client PC's with the key, opened up the application as an exception in the firewall on the client and 'hidden' the iTALC ICON (ONLY) in the notification area? Any Group Policy guides would be appreciated or advice given to assist in a speedy install. Many thanks..Garfoldo

Hey guys, So... I've recently explained to my boss about this piece of software that is able to view live-desktops in various computer labs (iTALC) And for the past week, I've been slowly getting through each computer, even though there is only like 25... However... The install on all of them has gone fine, without a hitch. Key files are all setup, pointing to UNC file paths on the LAN - I've tested the permissions on these, and they are working fine, so is authentication. However, when it comes to setting up the iTALC application on master computers, there is a little hitch-up which is making me want rip. my. hair. out. I can connect the computers fine to them, I can see them being interacted with, however, after about 30 minutes, the iTALC application on the master computer will crash, completely, requiring the program to be restarted. It keeps telling me that the application (ica.exe) has encountered an error and had to close... This is extremely annoying. I have tried installing this on multiple iTALC versions - 2.0 and 1.9.7 But, it is still crashing, which I find to be very weird... All the clients are running Windows XP Professional SP3 - Norton is installed on the clients, but I don't see how this could be affecting them? The master computers are all running the same except for the main server, which is running Windows Server 2008 Standard 64 bit If you guys have any Idea what could be causing this, could you please, please let me know? P.S - Would any of you know what the VPN feature of the program does, I am looking into a way that we could remote view students who are not currently in the lab but are at home doing work for their respective classes using some sort of a VPN/Terminal Server solution? Thanks, - James.

hello everyone I have installed italc on our win 7 teachers computers and the win xp class room computers and it is working great everything runs fine and it stores the ip address loading the class room computers every time i open italc. When I installed it in our ubuntu class room the teacher and students work great It does everything it should. but after adding all the computers for the class room they disappear when closing and reopening italc on the teacher computer. Any Ideas why I lose them in Ubuntu? It will not auto detect any classroom computers I have to put the IP address in every time I try to use it. I know I must be missing something simple in my set up just not sure what. Thanks

Hello, I'm using iTALC and I am trying to reinstall it and all the configurations on a rebuild of a machine. This is currently the only room that we are using iTALC in. I have setup the configurations and things I need in the Management Console but when I try to open iTALC after saving and restarting the service it want me to enter my login details so I do but then it tells me something similar to this: I'm thinking that it is an issue that I might just need to generate new keys as I am selecting the key files and configs from a network location.

I recently set up iTALC on about 30 PCs, fresh install. I put the iTalc key as well as the install on a USB drive and went around to the PCs I and installed it. I moved the install folder over to the local disk, but left the key on the USB when it asked for it, I just told it to look on the USB drive. This has always worked in the past, and it seemed to work this time as well. I guess iTalc pulls a copy of the key off the USB drive when it asks for it? I'm not sure. Everything is working great now, I can remote control, I can view desktops, all that jazz. The only issue is that on the admin machine, all the usernames are displayed as my username. I checked the box where it says to display usernames, and they are all me. Should I not have used my log in to install the client machines? That has worked for me in the past. Has anyone else seen this before? I think I might have read something about messenger service needing to be started on the machines for the usernames to display. Thats not going to happen, but it sounded fishy. Thanks in advance for the help.

There's finally a new release of iTALC classroom management and monitoring software out! I tried in vain last week to set this up in my computer lab. Every time that I install the master application on my teacher's computer it freezes up the mouse. When I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del to get to task manager, it is active then... but when I start task manager and get back to regular explorer, its frozen once again. Same deal with the clients that I tested as well. I love the program and the fact that it's free, but this is obviously a deal-breaker for me. I'm running XP Pro SP3 on all machines with all the latest windows updates, and USB keyboards and USB optical mice. All client machines are Dell Optiplex 740s and the master is an HP Compaq dc7800p. All machines are on the same subnet, members of the same Windows domain, all connected to the same Dell 100Mbit managed switch. Has anyone else encountered this with the 1.0.10 version and if so, have you been able to find a work-around for it? In the mean time, I am putting 1.0.9 back on until this is resolved.

Hi, I'm not sure if anyone has dealt with this issue yet, but we are trying to deploy iTalc on our domain which is virtual, so this issue is when I run italc it shows the CTRL+ ALT DEL screen but this isn't what is on the user's screen so it's not displaying a live feed, but if I log-in with an account on the hyper-v server it knocks the user off (which I thought it would) on on the thin client but then shows a live view on iTalc, which is bizarre. The "PCs" are 32 bit win7. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Hello everyone, Ive been trying to find a stable version of Italc for some labs in a school where i work. I actually have to install italc in 3 labs containing 20 to 38 computers. I first installed 1.0.13 b/c it wasn't a beta version and i thought it would be stable enough. I was glad to see that this free software is working really good BUT, after my complete installation in the 38 machines lab, i wanted to test it out with the whole class connected. When i had only a couple machines in, it was working fine, but now i'm unable to see all the machines at the same time. I only see 3 to 8 machines working and when i close italc and try to repopen it, i am unable to reach ANY one the computers in my lab. Then, i tried the beta 2 RC1. I don't have the problems i had and i must say, i really like the IMC and the new features available in there. But, in the RC1, the demo mode is not working and it's the feature i want the most. Then i tried the beta 2 RC2. Everything worked really good and i never loose computers in my class. The annoying thing is that if i lock clients or go demo mode. The client's taskbar don't ALWAYS come back when i stop the lock/demo. Approx 50% of my class come back, and the other 50% have to tskill explorer.exe........ This program looks really nice but if i can't get a stable version of it, i might need to switch for some non-free/non-open-source software and i simply don't want that. Anyone having the same issues / found a way to fix them ? And editting the source files from RC2 is not an option.

Is there any way (please say there is) to bulk import clients into italc from a text file? There's an export function - surely there should be an import? Or am I just blind?

I set up a master computer to control multiple classrooms. In each classroom I have one computer for the teacher and I would like to have the same masteraccount on every teachercomputer. (using the same key) How can I do this? Thanks in advance

Hi I've got problem with a italc lastest version (64bit) install on a PC turning with a windows 7 professional SE. When I install the programm on the master PC, the console manager works fine but not the Italc programm ; when I run it I've got this error : "Could not contact the local italc service. It is likely that you entered wrong credentials or key files are not set up properly. Try again and contact your administrator for solving this problem using the iTalc Management console". If I look the services list , the Italc service run fine. I've read italc doc and searched on the web, but nothing... Have you got any idea ? Thx Cyrille

Hi Guys, It's been a while since I've done a iTalc network install (1.0.9 which is from 2008!). One of my schools has asked me to look into a classroom management system thats cheap so I've suggested iTalc and they've jumped at the 'free' price. I've downloaded versio 1.0.13 remembering that at the end of the install it asks you do you want to save your installation settings into a .xml file which you can then inturn use to install other clients by 'setup.exe installstudent.xml' Version 1.0.13 doesn't have that option! but their documentation says it does =\ so rather confused. I then read somewhere to skip 1.0.13 and go straight for 2.0 as it intergrates with AD. Same again! no save installation settings or any other way to deploy it! So I'm tearing my hair out here trying to figure out how to deploy the iTalc client to 50+ machines then the iTalc Master to 10 teacher laptops! TL;DR - I cant deploy iTalc 2 and need help!

I've installed iTALC 1.0.11 in our schools' IT suite and I've got everything working perfectly except for the fullscreen demo mode and logging out feature. When either of these are used they do what they should but then the computers freeze and nothing but a reboot will restore access to them again. Has anyone encountered this error before? I've been through the iTALC wiki but there's nothing on there so I presume it's either a problem we're having in the suite or an undocumented problem with the current version. Does anyone have any suggestions that I can try to stop these features from freezing the computers?

Hello, I have been trying for the past 2 days to try and configure iTALC for our school system. I have done it by following this guide on spiceworks - https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/121529-how-to-deploy-italc-remote-support-software - Although I am having a few problems. The software is getting pushed to the machines I want it too, but it's not keeping the settings in the iTALC Management Console which stops me from connecting to the desired machines. I am using a 64 bit system by the way. Any Help would be appreciated.

Hi, I found this free PC monitoring system called "italc" on google. I've tried installing the iTalc Master and management console on multiple laptops/PCs (windws 7, windows 8, linux mint, lubuntu) but its not working on anything.. On the linux machines, i cant seem to find the italc Managment console. It's installed but I cant find it on the system. And when I try to launch Italc Master it gives me an error saying: No authentication key files were found or your current ones are outdated. Please create new key files using the iTALC Management Console. Alternatively set up logon authentication using the iTALC Management Console. Otherwise you won't be able to access computers using iTALC. I click "OK" then it just closes the italc loading screen and icon from the tray instantly. On windows 7 and windows 8 it gives me the error which says that it "cannot contact local italc services". Ive searched google and on EduGeek, but cant find the solution. One poster who had the same issue on their windows 7 machine, said they solved the issue saying the issue was ACL permissions? -Thanks

Hello All, New user, first post here. Already from all the reading I am doing this looks like a very valuable resource for me to read every day. Anyway, I have an issue with trying to get iTALC to play nicely with our network here at school. I have installed it on the Master PC and on a couple client PCs to do a test run of the software, and have already run into a pretty substantial problem. I can see the client PCs only when they are logged in with a Local User Account. The minute the client PC is logged into with an active directory user account, the host is unreachable. I have gone into the permission settings and added our network\domain users and it seems to have added permission for all domain users.. so I am at a bit of a loss as to what is going on. We have a sonicwall hardware firewall but I do not think that is causing the issue, as it works except for when logged in with a domain user account, otherwise I can see the client PCs. We are running Windows 7 on all the machines in the lab, and I am using the latest stable version of iTALC 2.0. Any and all help would be very appreciated!! -Josh

Hey, I'm trying to setup iTalc again because since we moved to a domain in the summer, we've not been using remote view software. I've got it working on two computers. However, when I click on a computer I get this on both my teacher and student computer. I don't really want this appearing on any computers. I've regenerated the public key still no joy. If you do click 'Yes' on both computers, it works. Thank you

I'm testing iTalc 2 (I tried V1 a while back with no success) and it looks like it could be ideal here. But I can't get this to work either. Installed the master on a Windows 7 (32bit) PC and the client on some test XP PCs on the same subnet. When I add them to the classroom they appear (eventually) but cannot be managed - you can't play the demo screen or share the screen/lock the session etc. When you view the screen it does show the screen but its incredibly slow to render it. Once someone logs into the client you get 'unreachable' at the master end! I've tried with the firewall disabled/enabled and it makes no difference (the client installer seems well designed in the fact it adds its own exception - nice touch) and I'm frustrated as this has so much promise for use in our classrooms! Anyone got any setup tips I can try?

Hi Can some one please lead me in the right direction please before i rip my hair out lol! I'm wanting to set up classroom management with the latest iTalc version 2.0 I have 10 classrooms and 1 corridor i want to monitor, all clients are running windows 7 pro except for class 7 which are still on xp and my server is running 2008 r2 so far I've been successful in setting up all machines and being able to monitor them using my server. but not the on the teacher machines in the individual classes. now my next project is to have the remote module in every class room so teachers can monitor the kids in their own class i have been on the iTalc website and it ain't very clear at all! even the wiki and documentations are rubbish! can someone please tell me how to set up this system so it works. so far im stuck on setting up keys. I would be very grateful if some one can put me out of my misery and point me in the right direction :-) Thank you!!! Phil

Has anyone installed/trialed/got this working at all? I'm just testing it. Installed it on a couple of machines, but so far I'm finding that only the remote control function works. The other features like locking computer switch off/on send text message etc etc.. All don't work. Looks like a great peice of software (if I can get all the features working) given that its free. Currently there is no support for the product, so basically if it doesn't work tough ( Thanks in advance.