Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Logitech 4000 video error

[George <geboyd netzero net>]

Warren,

If I understand your needs correctly, I would suggest looking into VNC
(virtual network computing) and rdesktop (Remote Desktop Protocol, the
desktop sharing protocol that's used by windoze), both of which should
have come with your linux distribution, if not you can google them. 

There are two excellent front ends to VNC and rdesktop, tsclient and
grdesktop. grdesktop is an interface to RDP. tsclient has an advantage
over grdesktop in that it does RDP, VNC, and XDMCP.

I have also seen whiteboard applications for linux but I have never used
them. A good starting place to search would be www.freshmeat.net.

I'm sure that other people may know more about this then I do. Maybe
someone will add some more input.

George



> Thanks for the info.  I need to interface with people that use Windows
> and NetMeeting.  Do you know of a NetMeeting substitute?  NetMeeting
> is alive and well and used in many corporations.  One particularly
> good feature is the ability to export a presentation on a desktop
> facilitating project development and similar things.  
> 
> I work in the Linux development area of our company but my guess is
> about +90,000 employees do there work on Windows.   I set a goal to
> try and do everything in Linux that can be commonly done with
> Windows.  A replacement
> for NetMeeting is one of those apps.
> 
> Warren
> 
> George wrote:
> > Hi Warren,
> > 
> > Gnomemeeting does not do text chat with Netmeeting. Netmeeting uses a
> > proprietary "commercial" protocol for text chat.
> > 
> > Gnomemeeting does not do remote desktop sharing either. There are other
> > programs for linux that do the same thing, and do them better then
> > Netmeeting, and as such are not integrated into Gnomemeeting.
> > 
> > You might want to read Damien's explanation of what Gnomeeting is meant
> > to be. You can find it on the Gnomemeeting web site.
> > 
> > Gnomemeeting greatly surpasses Netmeeting in it's networking and VOIP
> > capabilities. Gnomemeeting is not only a PC to PC VOIP application, but
> > PC to PHONE as well when using a quicknet card. I use it mostly for PC
> > to PHONE and the quality is excellent.
> > 
> > Netmeeting is old technology and as far as I know, is no longer
> > supported by Micro$oft. I don't know for sure, but I have heard mention
> > that Gnomemeeting will be ported to Windoze. Maybe someone on the list
> > can verify if that is true.
> > 
> > George
> > 
> > 
> >   
> > > My goal was to  use GnomeMeeting as a NetMeeting substitute but
> > > GnomeMeeting may not be there yet.  Do you know if the following is
> > > supposed to work because I can't seem to get these working.
> > > 
> > > *  Text chat with NetMeeting?
> > > *  Reception of a NetMeeting exported DeskTop?
> > >     
> > 
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