Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:34:58 -0500 From: Colin Albert <colintrebla@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: watching WebEx session on FreeBSD Message-ID: <4B4CDCF2.1070205@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B4CCC1C.90505@gmail.com> References: <20100112105155.GA2980@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001120838200.87664@wonkity.com> <20100112161230.GA4794@current.Sisis.de> <4B4CCC1C.90505@gmail.com>
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On 01/12/10 14:23, Colin Albert wrote: > On 01/12/10 11:12, Matthias Apitz wrote: >> El día Tuesday, January 12, 2010 a las 08:48:31AM -0700, Warren Block >> escribió: >> >>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Matthias Apitz wrote: >>> >>>> Has someone had luck with watching a WebEx session on FreeBSD based >>>> desktop? As far as I understand, it is somehow Flash and RDP based, >>>> i.e. >>>> some tools like Firefox with flash and a RDP client are required. >>>> I'm always forced to launch a VM with XP to watch such sessions and it >>>> would be good for me to overcome this situation. >>> The Linux Webex client might work. >>> http://support.webex.com/support/system-requirements.html says it'll >>> run >>> under Fedora 10, and linux_base-f10 works well. >> Thanks for the hint; I looked around there but can not see any WebEx >> Business Suite 27 (WBS27) client to down load; is this part of the 14day >> Free Trial? >> >> matthias > You should be able to try this using the online demo. > http://www.webex.com/go/live_demo if it works the download will be > automatic. I am still trying to make it work as well. > > -Colin Followup: I was able to make this work by changing my user agent from: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091106 Firefox/3.5.5 to: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091106 Firefox/3.5.5 So it looks like linux_base-f10 is not required. The first time I tried this firefox crashed. Then I opened firefox from the command line to see if I could see the error, and it is working now. I am still testing to see what functionality does/does not work. I am using 8.0 Stable with diablo 1.6 and firefox 3.5.5. Thanks, -Colin
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