File/App Collaboration/Sharing
 

Does anyone know of a program that will allow two or more users to collaborate together on an open file? (e.g. a word or excel document).

I think this can be done with Windows Netmeeting, but I know that has not been updated in a long time... Are there any other (*freeware) software applications that will allow me to do this?

Thanks!

Re: File/App Collaboration/Sharing
 

Hamachi :!:
http://www.hamachi.cc

With that, you can use Windows Remote Services, P2P apps, or ANY other network application, and it's all in a secured encrypted environment :)
The free version allows up to 16 users :cool:

Edit: You could also use a VNC, configured to accept multiple users, and everyone can see each other's desktop.
http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/

-kwag

Thanks Kwag - that looks like a good way to set up a secure network.

But I need a little hand holding to do what I want to accomplish...


What would I then do if I want to share control over, say a word file I am working on with a colleague remotely?

This was easy to do with netmeeting, but Netmeeting seems to be tempermental and I think I need to mess aroud with my router to get it to work properly (and unsecurely I guess), but don't want to do that...

Thanks!

You can have your colleague connect to you via "Windows Remove Services", or any VNC, like UltraVNC :)

-kwag

What about using netmeeting through hamachi?

Do you know if that would work if we use our Hamachi addresses in Netmeeting?

(ie: using Hamachi as a way to get around the router/port issues with netmeeting?)

Is there anything special I would need to do to get this to work? (I'll try it anyway...)

Thanks!

Yep :) Yep. Yep. :) Nope. As long as your Hamachi client can connect to the network, you can use any TCP or UDP program you want :)

If you want to try Hamachi, feel free to connect to a network I just created called: kvcd.net
Password: RQqkSVy5XkKfofpIiEotElGxqAGNjdJdis1CN72nTt7IocClAO InzBWF996vxE2

Then right click on the network named kvcd.net and open a chat window ;)
BTW, I'm using the latest BETA version of Hamachi, available in the forum here: http://forums.hamachi.cc/viewtopic.p...856afc5c6f43ce

-kwag

Works great! Thank you very much!

:)