Short story Nathan is - it will be a bleeding mess with VNC - but it is the very best of the possible choices for your type of situation.
In terms of raw connectivity and reliability, VNC is absolutely superb when configured correctly - particularly when using a lightweight recent version such as TightVNC. The issues are platform-specific maintenance ones, and some of the details about how you do it should be strongly influenced by your plans for VNC. My experience base in entirely within the Windows realm. Here are some questions that will help answer yours: (1) On the Windows systems, are your plans for remote support or for remote desktop access for everyone? Remote support is simplest; per-user remote support is inherently messy in that environment due to the need for a pre-login general access password as well as per-user passwords, which cannot be automatically synchronized with Windows local or network passwords unless you do some work with the PAM VNC mod. (2) What flavors of Windows? (3) Do you do currently use profiles and/or policies? Both can help dramatically. Resources to look at first would include Richard Harris' FastPush for VNC http://www.darkage.co.uk and the ADM template created by Daniel Quinlan: http://projects.chaosengine.net/winvnc/winvnc.ADM I have some remote monitoring and assessment tools I am working on myself, but they are still rudimentary and going through initial "peer review". ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2002-04-23 12:45 Subject: Large Scale Implementation > Has anyone implemented VNC in a multiplatform large > scale environment? I work for a university and am > getting ready to implement installing VNC on a several > thousand machines owned by the university, which > include Mac, Windows, Unix, and Linux. Has anyone > implemented VNC in a large scale (preferrably a > university) that could possibly give me some > suggestions or an idea of what to expect? > > Thanks, > > Nathan Hill > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: > 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY > See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
