[KLUG Members] Shadowing a terminal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>>Is it possible to shadow a terminal?  I'm thinking of something
>>>>similar in nature to shadowing a citrix session but with a simple text 
>>>>based console.  Is there a way to accomplish watching what someone else is
>>>>doing while they do it to assist in remotely assisting people.
>>>>Screen
>>>BTW, since you mentioned Citrix, I hope you know about X-Windows'
>>>inherit capabilites,
>>program runs on any host, and displays on any host.  I'm looking for
>>displays on two hosts.

For X you'd need xrfb0server to do that.

>>>especialy when combined with VNC (Virtual Network
>>>Computing).
>>vnc is wonderful.  It is however higher bandwidth than what I am
>>hoping, I am looking for a single terminal and not a desktop.

Let me know if you find anything.  I haven't monitored ASCII terminals in along
time and most of the things I used seem to have faded away.

>Could this somehow be used in a school environment where a teacher can
>watch what each student is doing by connetcting to a particular desktop
>and/or connect all the student desktops  to his own so he can show what
>he is doing?

Yes, VNC is used for this ALL THE TIME in HUNDREDS (if not THOUSANDS) of places.
 Many people can watch one display.  You can allow the viewers input (keyboard /
mouse) or not.  You can attach to a remote display (assuming it is running the
VNC service) and see it,  and if you want take away keyboard/mouse from the
local user. VNC runs on everything from the Palm Pilot on up,  there is also a
Java version.  There is a VNC utility for tiling (and shrinking) many displays
in a window for montoring multiple displays, etc...

Bascially VNC rocks.  And did I mention it is free?  Oh,  and it also performs
*NO* alteration of the Windows system libraries, etc... like many other
products,  so no app compatibility problems.


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