Monitor on PC network?

Hello
Is this possible but I would like to know how or if there is software that allows a monitor on a Windows PC on the network to become the monitor for the Mac mini?
Cheers

There is a category of programs (many free) called VNC (Virtual Network Computing). You can get a free VNC client for your PC and use the built-in VNC in Leopard (called Screen-Sharing) to remote control the Mini through the ethernet.
You'd need a real monitor and keyboard to initially configure the Mini and enable Screen-Sharing.
Alternatively, if the PC and Mini are sitting next to each other, you could use a KVM switch (keyboard, video, mouse) to share a monitor and keyboard and mouse between the two computers.

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Is there any Java API to use for monitoring computers in network? to remote lock/unlock screen of any PC in network?
It would be great if you could post a sample here. or just give some ideas.
Thank you so much.

Is there any Java API to use for monitoring computers in network?No. There isn't even a Java API to resolve the undefined concept 'in network'.
to remote lock/unlock screen of any PC in network?No.

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Hello, rjbm_exact.
You definitely need a managed switch and a Cisco Small Business (200 or 300 series) can meet your requirements. You can setup separate VLAN to segregate user access level. Are you also looking at expanding your wireless (guest access)?
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OK great info!
I found 2 possible ethernet to USB adapters:
By "Plugable": USB 2.0 to ethernet LAN wired network adapter - seems this will work, but I'll contact Plugable.
2. Apple USB Ethernet Adapter
Easily connect your MacBook Air computer to an Ethernet network with the Apple USB Ethernet Adapter. Small and light, it connects to the USB 2.0 port of your MacBook Air and provides an RJ-45 connector that supports 10/100BASE-T performance. BUT NOT SURE IF THIS WILL WORK ON ANYTHING BUT a MacBook Air…
One person commented:
This little gem used to be the device of choice for adding a second Ethernet interface to a Mac Mini Server and I'd been using one that way for about a year. After doing a software update to 10.6.6 it stopped working. Forewarned is forearmed – it appears that Apple is finally enforcing the MacBook Air system requirement.
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Best regards,
Steve Schulte
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The answer to your question also depends on whether you want to monitor which of your friends etc. is online, or whether you want to monitor for malicious users/attackers.
In the first case the DHCP client list ist quite ok, in the second case it wouldn't help you: An attacker would probably not query your DHCP server, he would just listen to some traffic and could then (a) choose a seemingly free IP from the network, (b) hijack an existing IP and MAC address (or of course (c) decide to use the DHCP server after all).
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I don't understand the request. Where would the network "name" come from? Networks are unnamed on IOS.

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#Maintairner: Brieuc Roblin <brieuc.roblin at gmail dot com>
pkgname='ntm'
pkgver='1.2.2'
pkgrel='1'
pkgdesc="Monitor of the network and internet traffic"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL')
depends=('pywebkitgtk' 'lsb-release' 'networkmanager')
makedepends=('dpkg')
url=('http://netramon.sourceforge.net/eng/index.html')
source=('http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/netramon/NTM/ntm-1.x/ntm-1.2.2.deb')
md5sums=('ec438b8c952ac866ffdaa57538d189b7')
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# Installing
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