[GnomeMeeting-list] BIG TIP

[Will Merkens <willm merkens ca>]

After much mucking about I have succesfully gotten ILS and NEtmeeting GM 
to all cooperate.

Some tips....

Tip #1 version 94 GM is definate help to the NAT/Firewall issues, 
upgrade :-)

Tip#2 Not all cameras are the same and there seems to be a coralation of 
camera view size to wether or not you get both remote video and local 
video, I had 2 Logitech 3000 and 1 Intel camera in my test cluster.

I hooked 1 Logitech to Linux under mandrake  9 & 8.2 and not a hitch, 
and I had the option of two sizes of video, but the intel I hooked up 
under XP only gave one option for size and that was medium. This led to 
netmeeting only showing the local video and not the remote, at first I 
thought that I had a firewall problem and I went over it again and again 
and could not figure out the problem. If I connected via the secound 
logitech that was on my laptop via mandrake 9 everything worked 
perfectly. I then told GM to use small picture and wham netmeeting 
started to behave and show the remote video.

Tip#3 when setting up the ILS ndk kit for your own ILS server make sure 
you have LDAP listening on the right IP, when I setup the ndk on my 
gateway with two nic's I inevertly had it only listening on the local 
lan, so any outside connections could not connect. DUH!

Tip#4 want netmeeting to show up in your ILS directory, edit the ndk 
supplied perl script

find this section
      # NetMeeting uses "%" for wildcarding, while the standard 
specifies "*"
       $filter =~ s/%/*/g;

-->
add the following to the file

      # Nermeeting only sees Netmeeting clients
       $filter=~s/sappid=ms-netmeeting/sappid=*/g;
-->

       # NetMeeting has a bad habit of specifying "base" when it meant 
"sub"
       $scope = "sub";

       # Note whether all attributes (the '*' wildcard) were requested
       if (grep(/^\*$/, @attrs)) {
           $allattrs = 1;

I hope these tips help, if anyone wants to ask questions about my layout 
feel free... :-)

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Will Merkens
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