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Hi,
I am running a looped Powerpoint display over a 2003/XP Pro network. I have
enabled Automatically Accept Calls on the host, but every time a client
calls in, it stops the display until the Netmeeting screen is minimised. Is
there a way round this?

Many thanks,

Adrian

Hi Brian,

The presentation is essentially a "Panic Board" running unattended on the
Host and connected to 4 remote monitors in Public Areas. As the machine
is networked, It seemed logical to use Netmeeting to allow users to "call
in" and view the Board on their desktop as a shared application. It all
works well, except that when a client calls, the Netmeeting screen appears
on the Host monitor and stops the presentation dead. I then minimise the
Netmeeting screen and the presentation resumes. I need clients to connect
without stopping the show.

Adrian Chalkley

Hi,
I am running a looped Powerpoint display over a 2003/XP Pro network. I have
enabled Automatically Accept Calls on the host, but every time a client
calls in, it stops the display until the Netmeeting screen is minimised. Is
there a way round this?

What is your goal here? Perhaps if you have some other computer other than
the PPT "host" the meeting it will work the way you want?

--
Brian Sullivan
Courses by Wire (http://www.coursesbywire.com)

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:31:37 +0000 (UTC), adrian wrote:

Hi Brian,

The presentation is essentially a "Panic Board" running unattended on the
Host and connected to 4 remote monitors in Public Areas. As the machine
is networked, It seemed logical to use Netmeeting to allow users to "call
in" and view the Board on their desktop as a shared application. It all
works well, except that when a client calls, the Netmeeting screen appears
on the Host monitor and stops the presentation dead. I then minimise the
Netmeeting screen and the presentation resumes. I need clients to connect
without stopping the show.

NetMeeting is not really intended for this type unattended operation. It
does have an unattended mode -- but aimed at a single party remote control
of a desktop.

The only way I can think of to do something like this is to have one
machine that runs the presentation and another that "hosts" the
meeting(using the Call ->host function) and is the "call manager". I think
that should allow the presentation computer not be interrupted.

--
Brian Sullivan
Courses by Wire (http://www.coursesbywire.com)