How many simultaneous people can be sharing the same desktop
in Netmeeting?
Does the desktop sharing using a TCP based protocol?
If not, going through firewalls must be a pain..
> Mark, have you had a chance to compare VNC to NetMeeting as far as
> bandwidth usage is concerned? Do you have any hard facts on which one
> performs better?
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> Thanks...Robert
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> "Mark Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@uk.research.att.com on 06/25/2001
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> VNC is used in our shop as an Xvfb and for remote server support and maint
> (almost exclusively). For the masses (particularly IT managers and
> security folks) the primary application for VNC is going to be electronic
> monitoring. It doesn't really matter what emphasis you give to the web
> page either.
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> Spyware aside.... we are also gearing up to use VNC (modified form) for
> net conferencing; instead of netmeeting or econference. We have used
> VNC for netdemos also, which is just a specialized net conference where
> all clients are view only. The demo conference is hosted on a Linux box
> that serves out an X connection in viewonly mode. A vncviewer is started
> on the same Linux host connecting back to the Windose box where the demo is
> being run. So, all clients (whatever platform) connect to the Linux box
> either with their browser or vncviewer and are able to see the software
> demo that is happening on the windose box. It is a lot of network
> traffic, but limiting to viewonly, restricting the colors to 8bit, and
> simplifying the backgrounds help with bandwidth. I have found it a more
> reliable conferencing solution in some situations.
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> Some people will use VNC for spyware. (very sad)
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