Linux alternative to MS Netmeeting

[jboland at citistreetonline.com]

semantics!

he wants to share a desktop to multiple users for training.  at that point,
the desktop hosting the training session becomes a server, semantically
speaking.  the others who will be watching the session are the clients.
regardless, of which platform the training is run from, vnc will still
provide the needed functionality.

he had asked for a solution that doesn't require a sever to host the
meeting.  i would assume that meant a separate server. also, even though we
speak of using a pc (windows or unix/linux) as a desktop, it still is a
server.  the desktop manager accepts drawing request from different
processes/programs and draws them.  wait a minute, that sounds like X.
vnc just moves the drawing part to whichever clients are connected.

if you ping us, do we not bind!  (apologies to will shakespeare) ;>))



                                                                                                               
                      Matthew Gillen                                                                           
                      <me at mattgillen.ne        To:       jboland at citistreetonline.com                          
                      t>                       cc:       Discuss at blu.org                                       
                                               Subject:  Re: Linux alternative to MS Netmeeting                
                      01/09/2007 09:31                                                                         
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jboland at citistreetonline.com wrote:
> what about vnc?
Well, he asked about something that wouldn't require a server to "host" the
meeting, but it's not clear why that's undesirable, or what exactly he
means
by that.  Without any more clarification on those two points, strictly
speaking VNC /does/ require a persistent "server" session, so it is
presumably
unsuitable for him.

> 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



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