[CentOS] Linux alternative to MS Netmeeting

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 16:48:00 UTC 2007


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.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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