[PLUG] RE: the plight of Beaverton Library

[Kevin Theobald]

jmplug writes:

 > > I think VNC could be useful.  Though I don't know if it is possible to
 > > have more than one person logged into NT at a time over VNC.
 > > Certainly the other way (multiple people on Windows logged into a
 > > Linux box via VNC) works fine.
 > 
 > 
 > It can, but they would be sharing the same session, and fighting over
 > control of the machine.  But even if that wasn't the case, I'm not sure how
 > this would work for the public, or what it would be intended to do.
 > Remember, it isn't incredibly simple, it will not fly. :)

You'd have a VNC client on the linux box (probably iconified, with the
icon saying Expedia or whatever the Windows-only database is) and then
when you click on it and get the VNC window, you can interact with
that app, which is really running on the NT server.

Kevin