[Cialug] video conference/videophone

James Shoemaker james at dhlake.com
Thu Mar 8 17:35:52 CST 2007


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Aaron Porter wrote:
> On 3/8/07, James Shoemaker <james at dhlake.com> wrote:
>>   Looking for a videoconference/videophone solution that works well with
>> both windows and linux clients with most/all of the clients behind NAT
>> routers.  The best solution wouldn't include modifying rules on the
>> firewall and tunneling somehow.  Have settled to tunneling the firewalls
>> on the windows machines with putty if required, but would prefer
>> something simpler if possible.  The windows users are completely
>> non-technical so it will need to be a double-click on a shortcut thing
>> for them.
> 
> Sounds like you need a service that bounces off an external server --
> like Skype, or the old CuSeeME.

  Skype video is XP only as far as I can tell, CuSeeME I can't seem find
a linux client for.

  Think I found my answer, run an open323 openmcu server on my firewall
box and use ekiga under linux and netmeeting from the windows boxes

James
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