Is it possible???

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You have two computers, both with a web cam and microphone
each.The two computers are connected using a NIC card and
a "cross-over cable" (cat5). How or can this be setup so
that you have "Live" video and audio between the two
computer in different locations within your home network.
With out using a outside source or internet. Or is this
out of the scope of XP Home OS.

Please reply only to the newsgroup, do not email. Any help
or links would be helpful.

Thank you and Have a nice day.
 
John said:
You have two computers, both with a web cam and microphone
each.The two computers are connected using a NIC card and
a "cross-over cable" (cat5). How or can this be setup so
that you have "Live" video and audio between the two
computer in different locations within your home network.
With out using a outside source or internet. Or is this
out of the scope of XP Home OS.

Please reply only to the newsgroup, do not email. Any help
or links would be helpful.
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Unless I've missed something, Netmeeting ought to be able to do it.

Assuming your network between the two machines works for the basics already
(e.g. you can certainly ping each other and maybe share drives)... don't
even bother with the rest of this until you are sure the basic networking is
perfect.

Goto Start menu, run, type CONF and hit enter. Netmeeting will start and
give you a nice wizard. Tell it nicely that you don't want to log into a
netmeeting server.

Do this on both machines. You should have netmeeting running, setup and hot
to go on both machines. Click "place a call" button on one of them. In "to"
give the IP address of the other machine on your network.

Whomever is operating the other machine should accept the "call".

Hopefully, thats job done!
 
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