On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 1:31 PM, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> wrote:
> If it is on a single network this should be doable by using UDP broadcast > announcements. The share server can announce some information and its IP in > a UDP packet being broadcasted. Every client receives that and then knows > the address of the server to connect to > > Hope this helps, Norbert > > > Am 06.05.2018 um 12:47 schrieb Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu>: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for advices on a feature I want to develop for Dr. Geo. > > > > The need takes place in a LAN, for example in a School computer lab. A > teacher and students each run their own instance of Dr. Geo. I want the > teacher to be able to share with her students some sketches. Then the > students,from their Dr. Geo running instance, can browse and open the > sketches shared by the teacher. > > > > The user scenario will be like this: > > > > - Teacher copies the sketches she wants to share with her students in > her DrGeo.app/myShare folder. Then she activates the Dr. Geo share service > (from the setting browser for example). > > > > - Students start their own instances of Dr. Geo. It automatically scans > (in the background preferably) the LAN for any available LAN shares. When a > student goes to File>open she can also browse and open the discovered > shares. > > > > - Ideally students could also save their work on the teacher share. > > > > The constraints: there is no such things as fixed IP. So the scan is > over a subnetwork range. > > > > Any advices, reference reading, traps to avoid? > Not really for Pharo itself but PirateBox is a handy tool for gatherings like you mention (especially since there are often lots of network problems taking away valuable time). http://www.minimachines.net/a-la-une/guide-creer-une-piratebox-a-partir-dune-raspberry-pi-26812 Phil > > Thanks > > > > Hilaire > > > > -- > > Dr. Geo > > http://drgeo.eu > > > > > > > > > >
