VNC ? again

[Bart Silverstrim]

Wade Smart wrote:
  > Well, it needs to be simple for the teachers and the IT guy. I dont work
> for the school district - just help out when I can. So the admin is
> barely out of school in most cases and knows little.
> 
> What I was asked to do is make it easy for the admin to access the
> teachers computer to either fix something or show them how to do
> something without him/her having to travel to each school. Right now
> this is implemented at only one school but if this works out - it will
> grow to all the schools.

As a person that has had a large setup with VNC, if you're talking about 
remote access to WinXP+ systems via VNC, you need to be careful with the 
Windows firewall.  It's one of our thorns when using it.