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What should i use for a Remote Desktop Control?

Hi everybody i'm new to stackoverflow and to python programming :-)

Can somebody point me in the right direction or suggest me a good way to do this..?

The software I'd like to write is a kind of "multiple remote control", it has:

One Server ... whose task is to send his screen to all the clients
Many Clients ... they show the Server's screen and they are all able to control it (there exist a lot of remote control applications which can do this,but not all the clients together i think .. practically one server with many mice :p .. however all the clients will be managed by the server)

Given that I'm new to python i started looking and using these libraries:

wxWidget for the gui

Twisted for the network connection, because it's an easy way to implement a multicast UDP .. but is udp the right choise to send images to all the clients? =/

PIL (Python Imaging Libary) images stuff and to grab the screenshots on the Server machine to send to the clients .. this is the point where I stopped to think to all the possible solutions ... (I wasn't able to send the image to the client, I tried converting it to string but the UDP message was not that big :) )

I've seen many suggest the use of a VNC application .. is it easy to develop my software as described around it (actually i have no idea how..), or grabbing the screen continuously with PIL and sending somehow the images to the clients is an acceptable solution?

Thanks in advance for any help :-)

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