CentOS - Jan 2007 - Linux alternative to MS Netmeeting

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 1/9/07, Matt Shields <mattboston at 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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George Orwell

On 1/9/07, Matt Shields <mattboston at 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
> Matt
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