I am new to VNC. We sell point of sale systems to the restaurant industry. Two of them (Aloha and DIGITAL DINING) use TCP/IP for communications. As part of the sale we in the past have installed PC Anywhere on the user cash register terminals (which are nothing more than PCs running Win 98 with touchscreens and 40 column printers) using the TCP/IP connenction option. This lets the owner (from the file server in the back office) watch what the bartenders or waiters are ringing up as they monitor them from the Closed Circuit TV system. This helps them catch employees who are stealing from them.
New developments. Squirrel is one of the systems we sell. For years the Old Squirrel communicated using RS-232 to the terminals. The new Squirrel for Windows NT uses Linux to communicate to the terminals. We have been searching for a product that will accomplish what PC Anywhere did for us in the example above. We think VNC will do it. My 18 year old little brother has good experience with Linux (More than anyone in my office). He brought his PC to our office and we tried to use VNC to see what the operator was doing on the Squirrel Terminal. But all we could do was bring up another X window, not the one that is running the Squirrel Application. Any advice?????? Here are some notes from my brother - his e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell them that the terminals boot off of internal network cards and load their system files off of the Windows NT machines hard drive. They have no internal disk space. We need to put VNC server on that shared portion of disk and have the terminals execute it. Also, when we ran VNC server on my PC it created a virtual X screen that wasnt viewable by my PC. The only way we could view it was using the vnc viewer over the network. We are trying to see screen:0.0 from the linux machine with a vnc viewer on another machine. Brian Correa Account Manager Sierra Nevada Cash Register 3065 E. Post Road Las Vegas, NV 89120 Ph:702.795.0700 Fx:702.795.7597 _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
