[K12OSN] Running NovaNet on clients

[Eric Harrison]

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> Dan Young wrote:
>
>> In my experience, Novanet is _not_ accessible via a web browser. Take  a 
>> look at the system requirements and their description of the client 
>> requirements, which describe the "Portal" software. That is a Windows  or 
>> Mac binary which must be installed on each workstation.
>> http://www.pearsondigital.com/secure/novanet/NNSysReq.pdf
>
> This is the document that has left me with questions.  It appears that they 
> offer a LAN/WAN option where they put equipment on the customer's premise.  I 
> read this to be the one to require the binary.  It *seems* that the other 
> access option, the Internet option, does not require any installation.  I am 
> going to call them and to try and access it from the school tomorrow with a 
> laptop.

Some time ago they had a beta Linux client binary. You might ask them about that.

-Eric