Re: [school-discuss] Remotely controlling Keyboards and mouse

[Don Christensen <djc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a UseCase as follows:
>
> The classroom has a server for the Teachers and Workstations (fully
> functional PCs) for the students. The teachers are required to
> control/activate/deactivate the keyboards and the mouse of the
> Workstations as and when required during demonstrations and the like.
>
> I looked at http://okvm.sourceforge.net/ but would like to know if there
> are other means of doing this.
>
> Regards
> Sankarshan

I think any of the VNC variants (www.tightvnc.org is my personal
favorite) can be configured to do this.  If the workstations are
running Windows, you can configure the server such that when a
remote user connects (the teacher in this case), the local keyboard
and mouse are disabled.  Teacher and student can both see what is
on the screen.

If the workstations are running Linux, you can use the remote
desktop stuff to essentially do the same thing.  You'll have to
look up how to configure this to disable the local keyboard and
mouse; I haven't tried doing that.

-Don

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