Charles, I'm really excited about shadowing, too! I'm also really excited about the comments regarding LEAF+LTSP. This is a great time for LTSP. I sense a breaking story about "Linux in the Enterprise" using LTSP and LRP/LEAF. The combination of these two advances could make LTSP as powerful as Citrix/WinTSE! With feature parity, the $0 price tag is a jaw-dropper! :-)
Anyway... 1: "Pushing" a session -- I believe the original messages regarding the existence of x0rfbserver were closely followed by someone mentioning a presentation in western Canada (Vancouver?) in which people were already doing this. So, yes, x0rfbserver can be used to "push" a session out for training. This shouldn't be hard to do, either. Once you setup the source session, all you have to do is fire up a bunch of viewers. You could devise any of a number of ways to do this... A new menu option on desktops or an auto-run command on login, if everyone is supposed to see the demo.... 2: "Passive Shadowing" (a.k.a. spying) -- The patches that add the -stealth option to x0rfbserver effectively make exactly what your boss is asking for possible (and it only took John Cuzzola one rainy Saturday to add those). With no intervention on the part of the user, their session can be remotely observed without interfering with the keyboard and mouse. Even if you'd setup encrypted email so that no one in between could decypher it, the boss could just sit back and watch you type it! x0rfbserver is also distributed with a program called rfbcat, which allows you to save x0rfbserver output to a file, thus preserving the spyed upon session! Jason > From: "Charles Marcus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] RE: X0rfbserver Citrix Server semi-sol'n > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:40:54 -0400 > > I am very excited by the discussions for implementing shadowing capability > using X0rfbserver in LTSP, but had one question and one comment... > > Question: > Will it be very simple to 'reverse' the concept, so that someone (the Admin, > or someone in the 'Trainers' Group) could *push* their desktop out to multiple > workstations (or all of them) for Training purposes? > > A little 'Chat' window would come in quite handy too (for both regular > Shadowing, and Pushing). > > Comment: > As distasteful as it sounds, my boss has asked me about the possibility of > what I'll call 'Passive Shadowing', ie, shadowing someones workstation without > the ability to take it over, and *without them knowing it*, so he can see what > they are doing. > > The reason for this is, we have a big problem with people spending lots of > time 'playing' on the internet when they should be working, and the boss would > like to be able to look in on them from time to time. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
