Remote Desktop Sharing | The Coffeehouse

andokai

Has anyone come across an application that allows you to share your desktop with more than one person at a time? At the moment I'm having to daisy chain which isn't ideal.

Cheers,
Andrew

yman

VNC?

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

Remote Desktop on WinXP is limited to one connection because of Terminal Services licensing I beleive. Programs like VNC allow multiple users to be connected to the PC but they dont allow multiple user sessions.

andokai

It's not multiple user sessions I'm after. It's for collaboration where multiple users see the same screen and either one or more users can interact with the host desktop. Does VNC allow that type of functionality?

Edit: The kind of functionality I'm after is more akin to Remote Desktop Sharing than Remote Desktop Connection. Stupid similar names.

yman

It is possible if you use terminal server. One person TSs in. Another user then TSs into a seperate session and takes remote control of the first session. Another person could then TS in and take control of the second session which features someone controlling the first session. Confusing eh?

andokai

Yeah I had been doing something similar with Remote Desktop Sharing where user 1 shares with user 2 and user 2 shares with user 3. The updates to user 3's screen though are very slow and in order for all three users to communicate a skype conference call is required further slowing things. LogMeIn Pro is a bit better in terms of speed but it's still a less than ideal solution.

shreyasonline
Push The Limits !

Windows NetMeeting ? ... Though I have not tried Remote Desktop Sharing for more than one user. Try it and let me know Wink

Shreyas Zare

andokai

I have tried NetMeeting and as far as I could see it only allowed sharing with one other person. Strange considering the program's name.

andokai

I think I found the Microsoft product which offers the functionality I need. Office Live Meeting (Will the new one be called Office Live Live Meeting?) at 3k per year plus 180 per user I think we're better of sticking to our hack. Expressionless

newedge

Take a look at Imera Systems TeamLinks. It allows remote access, multiple sessions, desktop/application sharing, and comes with features like presence awareness, chat, annotation, VoIP, etc. Gaining a lot of traction as a solution for both support and collaboration. www.imera.com

andokai

Thanks, any idea how much it costs? Personally I've been waiting for DimDim to be made available to the public. There's no better price than free. Big Smile

NuTcAsE
नमस्तॆ

GoToMeeting.com

ddillon

Meeting Space?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/forbiz/sharing.mspx

andokai

ddillon wrote:
Meeting Space?

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/forbiz/sharing.mspx

Yes I think that is just what I want only I kinda need it now and on XP.

NuTcAsE I've seen GoToMeeting, it looks good but I'm not sure it's worth the cost when there's tools like Vyew that offer a good enough solution for free.

newedge

TeamLinks doesn't make sense for a 1 or 2 person support or collaboration team. Better for 5 users; superior for domain federation and secure collaboration across multiple domains. Pricing is less than webex. Click on the try now for a trial trial. Really depends on your environment; it isn't for everbody. Definitely for organizations that share sensitive information, or need visual access to data-intensive information (remote driving complex schematics for example with little latency is critical for EDA food chain). Has presence awareness, ability to drag-and-drop additional colleagues into collaboration or support session for backend support. You can train or conduct demos, engage in multiple concurrent or separate sessions, etc.

alwaysmc2
It's not stupid; It's advanced!

andokai wrote:
It's not multiple user sessions I'm after. It's for collaboration where multiple users see the same screen and either one or more users can interact with the host desktop.

Windows Meeting Space? (Formerly known as Windows Colaboration)

Of course, they'd all need Windows Vista...