In the company I work for, quite a few people use Netmeeting to share desktops during training. Anyone know of a way to either connect to their Netmeeting, or an alternative that will work on both Windows & Linux, and not require a server to host the meeting.
Matt
Matt Shields wrote:
In the company I work for, quite a few people use Netmeeting to share desktops during training. Anyone know of a way to either connect to their Netmeeting, or an alternative that will work on both Windows & Linux, and not require a server to host the meeting.
Matt
You could consider VNC. I have created a guest account on a linux machine, with a running (shared) vncsession. Nice for reviews with persons all over the world. Since you don't want to run a dedicated server, you could also run a shared vncserver on a Windows machine and allow access to others. (realvnc is free)
Netmeeting is more user friendly I must say.
Theo
On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:08 +0100, Theo Band [Xanadu Wireless] wrote:
In the company I work for, quite a few people use Netmeeting to share desktops during training. Anyone know of a way to either connect to their Netmeeting, or an alternative that will work on both Windows & Linux, and not require a server to host the meeting.
You could consider VNC. I have created a guest account on a linux machine, with a running (shared) vncsession. Nice for reviews with persons all over the world. Since you don't want to run a dedicated server, you could also run a shared vncserver on a Windows machine and allow access to others. (realvnc is free)
If there are a large number of viewers you can also use vncreflector to offload the screen updates to a different machine.
On 1/9/07, Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:
In the company I work for, quite a few people use Netmeeting to share desktops during training. Anyone know of a way to either connect to their Netmeeting, or an alternative that will work on both Windows & Linux, and not require a server to host the meeting.
Gnomemeeting/Ekiga is probably what you want, however getting the newer code to build on centos is tricky because they require some newer gnome packages and other bits. It should work flawlessly on centos5 once it releases though.
I have Ekiga running, has anyone successfully connected to a Netmeeting with desktop sharing?
Matt
On 1/9/07, Jim Perrin jperrin@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/9/07, Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:
In the company I work for, quite a few people use Netmeeting to share desktops during training. Anyone know of a way to either connect to their Netmeeting, or an alternative that will work on both Windows & Linux, and not require a server to host the meeting.
Gnomemeeting/Ekiga is probably what you want, however getting the newer code to build on centos is tricky because they require some newer gnome packages and other bits. It should work flawlessly on centos5 once it releases though.
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Gnomemeeting/Ekiga is probably what you want, however getting the newer code to build on centos is tricky because they require some newer gnome packages and other bits. It should work flawlessly on centos5 once it releases though.
I did not know that gnomemeeting did whiteboard sharing...does not it only do h.323 VoIP and video? ekiga adds support for sip and that is it right?
I do not see whiteboard/windows desktop sharing on the feature list at: http://www.ekiga.org/index.php?rub=2
On 1/9/07, Matt Shields mattboston@gmail.com wrote:
In the company I work for, quite a few people use Netmeeting to share desktops during training. Anyone know of a way to either connect to their Netmeeting, or an alternative that will work on both Windows & Linux, and not require a server to host the meeting.
I think vmware server and the corresponsding client would fit the bill. vmware is free as I understand it as long as you are not using it as part of a product you sell. Anyway, you would run an instance of an OS on a machine with the vmware server software, and then multiple systems can connect to this instance using vmware server. Everybody sees the same thing. I'm not so sure how this would work in X, but I know it works really well for console sessions.
Cheers...james
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