why not have *that* machine with the large display RDP into a terminal server, and autostart a training video upon login ?
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Alex Eckelberry <[email protected]> wrote: > Radmin is awesome and while not free, it’s cheap ($50). > > > > http://www.radmin.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Kent McKinney > *Sent:* Friday, August 1, 2014 12:34 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] Native VNC-like Windows remote control toy? > > > > One low tech option might be to RDP from the kiosk system to the user's > machine. > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Danvers, Jim" <[email protected]> > Sent: August 1, 2014 10:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NTSysADM] Native VNC-like Windows remote control toy? > > We have a television display (LCD) mounted up on a wall in out truck > drivers break room that has a networked PC connected to it. At present all > it is doing is auto-logging onto the domain using a generic account and > bringing up a weather web page in kiosk mode. I’m going to show some > supervisors how to access it so that they can have it run powerpoint slide > shows, etc … > > > > One of the supervisors asked a question about using it as a large display, > ala a projector, if you will, that he could use to conduct training > sessions back there with the drivers. My initial answer was “yeah we can > do that … “ but then I thought about it for a minute and was like “… oh > wait … that won’t work.” I was just going to have him rdp onto the > session but …. as I’m sure most in here know the local display will go > blank when hijacked in such a manner. L > > > > Are there **any** native, and preferably free, windows solutions to get > remote control of a remote machine AND have that machines screen NOT go > blank AND not require any user intervention? ( ie; yeah – let Brian the > supervisor connect ) > > > > I’ve run the question re: using VNC up to my immediate supervisor (I don’t > know if it is “illegal” to use here in our company or not … ). Hopefully > they won’t have any issues with it – but if they do – you guys have any > ideas? > > > > -=- jd -=- >
