Thanks to each one who responded. You are all suggesting a second PC which we have plenty of. It's really more a question of finding the space to locate the PC. If we could use the receptionist's machine the space problem would be solved.
I had hoped someone would know about a way to drive a video card remotely from a terminal services session or an application that uses two separate video cards in the same PC for this purpose. It is probably better to figure out a place to locate a second PC and figure out a way to have staff power it on and off as appropriate. Thanks again - Joe On Monday, March 30, 2009 1:05 PM, David Smith wrote: > >Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:05:12 -0400 >From: David Smith >To: [email protected] >cc: >Subject: RE: [NF] Dual display control options > >I recently set this sort of thing up here at the autodealership I work for. >I ended up with a small PC connected to a 32 inch monitor. The PC is part of >my Log Me In computer group, so I can remotely view the output. This works >well. In this case the PC in question is reading an HTML page located on a >shared network drive. To prep I disabled the screensaver, adjusted the >power savings settings so the drive, screen and lan card never turn off, and >I wrote a little script to force a reboot once a day and relaunch the page. >Works great. > >Dave > >David Smith >Systems Administrator >Doan Family of Dealerships >(585) 352-6600 ext.1730 >[email protected] >www.upstatedigitools.com > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of Joe Yoder >Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:58 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [NF] Dual display control options > >I have a client who wants to use a 24 inch LCD screen as a public >announcement/display board. The displayed information will probably be from >an unattended slide show or Power Point presentation. The screen will be >located on the outside of the receptionist's office wall and could be driven >from and controlled by the receptionist's computer. It is possible to use >the dual screen support built in to XP to have the large screen display one >thing while the receptionist uses the smaller screen for normal office work. >The problems with this approach include the likelihood of the contents of >the two screens getting intertwined and the lack of a simple way for the >receptionist to see what is displaying on the large screen without leaving >her office to actually view it. Another approach would be to setup a second >PC just to drive the large screen and use some kind of remote control >software to monitor and control it. > >Any advice or leads in dealing this situation would be welcome. TIA - Joe >Yoder > > >--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html >--- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
