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Controlling a single PC from multiple others

Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
edited December 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
My roommates and I have just mounted a new TV in our computer room, and we'd like to connect one of our laptops to it, with which to do Netflixxing and also play video/musak from our hard drives. Perhaps the occasional sharing of a funny link to the room as well.

I'm wondering if anyone here has ever encountered a solution that would work well for this, like remote-desktopping but with multiple clients able to connect.

Any ideas?

Mai-Kero on

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  • DrowsDrows Registered User regular
    Simplest thing would be to network share the folders containing the music/videos on your hard drives, and netflix directly from the laptop in question.

  • Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    Drows wrote:
    Simplest thing would be to network share the folders containing the music/videos on your hard drives, and netflix directly from the laptop in question.

    That's exactly what the plan is. What I'm looking for is a way to control the laptop from each of the computers so we don't need to use an android app or a wireless keyboard/mouse that we pass around.

  • EgoEgo Registered User regular
    Synergy (http://synergy-foss.org/) is what I use for controlling one system with the mouse/keyboard of another. Not sure how it fares with multiple clients as I've yet to have occasion to do that, but it's a slick bit of (free) software.

    Erik
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