MS Application Sharing under TANGO Interactive

Bart Winnowicz

About ShareAgent

This set of programs allows sharing of the following Microsoft applications under control of the TANGO Interactive session manager:
The TANGO Interactive ShareAgent combines WebWisdom's TANGO Interactive and Microsoft NetMeeting session models. Other applications can be added to the system upon request.

System requirements

TANGO Interacative plugin and Microsoft NetMeeting version 2.1 (version 2.0 will NOT work).

About Installation

The setup of the ShareAgent copies Share Agent executable and configuration file to your local directory (default is C:\Program Files\WebWisdom\Tango1.0x\ShareAgent\).

To make ShareAgent work with TANGO Interactive, you must:

Adding every new member to a ShareAgent session may take 30 seconds or longer. This is the NetMeeting application startup overhead which is independent of TANGO Interactive.

To take control over the shared application in the slave mode, do one of the following:

As soon as a user in the slave mode takes control of the application, he/she begins to share ONE mouse with other collaborating users. This is because NetMeeting is a shared-display technology. Using it requires good cooperation of all users and a great deal of patience.

Currently, if a user wants to leave the collaboration, he/she must take over the control of the mouse and leave the session (if slave) or remotely close all other peers (if master). To activate application window (either master or slave), user may double-click on the name of the established session in TANGO Interactive Control Application.

Limitations:


TANGO Interactive support group
Last modified: Wed May 5 15:42:27 EDT 1999