Suitable set-up of Cloud Server for classroom

[ericT]

Hi,

I’l testing solutions to give remote access to IT classrooms. But I’m not sure which NoMachine version(s) I should use for that.

I’d like to provide a page on which students can choose a room, clicking on an icon. Every link should give access to the given room’s PC list (like Cloud Server webplayer), allowing them to access a PC via NoMachine.

The students should be able to see if a machine is already used or not, and only able to connect on a free machine (preventing the students to click on an already used machine and see the message “Wait for the logged in user to allow or not the connection).

I didn’t manage to get this behaviour with cloud server, and terminal server (which I didn’t test yet) seems to deal with “load balancing” between PCs, according to the documentation, which doesn’t seem to prevent multiple login on a PC.

What I’m about to test is : a Cloud Server in every room, listing this room’s PCs, and a “normal” web page (main access portal), with a link for every cloud server’s webplayer.

But this is maybe not the best practice.

Can you advice me about that ?

Thanks

ET

[Britgirl]

Cloud Server would need Enterprise Desktops added to it. Each PC you have must have Enterprise Desktop installed. With the implementation of the following Feature Request (coming very soon) it will be possible to see if there are users attached to a specific machine.

Displaying the number of users connected to the child servers
https://www.nomachine.com/FR03R03953

Terminal Server products are for Linux only. Using Enterprise Terminal Server and adding on Terminal Server Nodes you can achieve the entrypoint that you wish to set up and then by setting profiles you can decide which users can access which nodes, which type of desktop and other permissions. It’s a very powerful product. If you don’t want to load-balance, you can activate the ‘manual-node’ selection of the nodes. This means that all users, or only some specific users, will be able to choose on which node to create their virtual Linux desktop.

In this case, could each node represent a ‘classroom’ maybe? Each user could have their own desktop session.

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