[THIN] Re: Allow Shadowing to group of users

  • From: "Marty" <Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:19:38 -0400

I don't need anything that complicated. What I need is for some department 
managers to get into a users session and remote control it for a moment.
Any ideas???
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Claus, Brian 
  To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:48 PM
  Subject: [THIN] Re: Allow Shadowing to group of users


  Marty,

  I have an app called sessionid (below) that lets an "instructor" run it to 
find out their session ID, then I have students launching a "shadow instructor" 
application, they input the session ID that the instructor finds through the 
sessionid app and then the students all connect to the instructor.  I just 
configured the built in Shadowing policy in XPe and assigned the groups that I 
wanted to give access to. 

  The instructor launches sessionid from a published desktop, then I have the 
instructor launch another citrix session from the desktop under their own 
username to get all of the proper apps\permissions for each app.

  Students launch the shadow instructor app and get connected to the 
instructor's desktop, then they can see everything that the instructor opens.


  I call wscript.exe and then a custom .vbs file.  (pasted below) to get the 
"shadow instructor" app working. ie:  wscript.exe "F:\shadow.vbs" 

  SESSIONID.CMD

  quser instructor
  pause


  SHADOW.VBS

  Dim wshshell, v_server, v_session, run_string

  'v_server = InputBox("Please enter the NUMBER of the CITRIX server hosting 
this session: ", "Citrix Remote Hosting", "??")

  v_session = InputBox("Please enter the Session ID of the host: ", "Citrix 
Remote Hosting", "??")

  run_string = "cshadow " & v_session & " 
/server:servername_where_instructor_is_on_goes_here /mb"

  'msgbox run_string

  set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
  wshShell.Run(run_string)


  NOTE:  The instructor launches a published desktop that is on a "TRAINING" 
server every time...Make sure your student shadow sessions "shadow.vbs" are 
forced to this same training server.  MAX number of users shadowing the 
instructor is 15-20, any more will cause a BSOD (Compaq DL360 with (2) 1 GB 
processors and 2 GB RAM)

  Hope that helps...





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       Brian Claus, A+, Network+, MCP
        Network Administrator
        WESCO Distribution, Inc.
        225 West Station Square Drive, Suite 700
        Pittsburgh, PA 15219-1122
        Phone:  412-454-2412
        Fax:  412-454-2540
        bclaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Marty [mailto:Marty@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
    Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:14 PM
    To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    Subject: [THIN] Allow Shadowing to group of users


    Can anyone explain to me how to setup a group of users and assign a policy 
to allow them the rights to shadow others, AND what utility should they use?

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