[K12OSN] GoToMeeting client

[Sean Harbour]

Just an idea here, but as an alternative, IE could be hosted on a native MS box, and exported via an RDP session, Windows Terminal Server, or Citrix. The GoToMeeting client should work in that environment, but I haven't tried it myself. As long as you don't have to many sessions going, a minimal solution might be a couple of Windows boxes or VMs exporting IE via some links published on the thin clients. More demand could scale up to an MS terminal server, or Citrix. Riverdale HS did something similar (ms terminal server desktop published to K12LTSP clients) a decade ago, and although it was available, it was barely utilized. Slippery slope, anyone?

Thanks,

Sean

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   1. Re: GoToMeeting client (Warren Togami Jr.)
   2. Re: GoToMeeting client (Barry Cisna)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:22:04 -1000
From: "Warren Togami Jr." <warren at togami.com>
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Subject: Re: [K12OSN] GoToMeeting client
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On 11/6/2011 3:33 AM, Barry R Cisna wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Has anyone on list been able to make GoToMeeting plug-in for
> Linux/Firefox work in any way? This is really a showstopper for using
> K12LTSP at this time. In the last 2-3 years this has become a must have
> piece to be working in a school environment.
>
> The solution to run Internet Explorer via Wine, then use the GoToMeeting
> plug-in this way, is simply not transparent enough by any stretch for
> multiple users. Just too clumsy for a quick setup for an end user.
>
>   I did Google this of course and did not find any workarounds for using
> this in Linux.
> The  GoToMeeting client download, when tries to start simply stops
> saying the OS and/or the web browser is not supported FYI.
>
> Thank You,
> Barry Cisna

Does GoToMeeting work on ordinary Linux desktop?  If not, there is no
chance it will work on LTSP.

Warren



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:09:02 -0600
From: Barry Cisna <cisna-barry at wc235.k12.il.us>
To: K12LTSP Mailing List <k12osn at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] GoToMeeting client
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Unfortunately, I have not been able to find anyone that has posted
anywhere that GoToMeeting can be made to work on Firefox-x.x.

The only workaround is to run Internet Explorer via Wine and install the
latest Windows Media Player 11 to run GoToMeeting this way.

So, as of now GoToMeeting can not work natively on Linux/Firefox,so i
guess it isn't really a k12ltsp issue exclusively.


Barry




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