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susan15
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5 years ago

GoTo Meeting: Screen Sharing in Remote Desktop mode

I am a GoTo-Meeting user who uses a personal laptop to log into my desktop computer (Windows 7) via RemoteDesktop when I work from home.  I can call in by telephone and see what other people share wh...
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    GlennD
    5 years ago

    Thank you. As the work desktop is virtualized GoToMeeting is not going to be able to share it's screen. My suggestion would be to host the meeting on your Laptop, share it's desktop and then have your connection to your work desktop open displaying the documents. The attendees will see whatever is on your Laptop's screen, so they will be able to see the work desktop you are viewing.

     

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susan15
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I am connecting to my work desktop computer and launching GoTo-Meeting there (on the virtualized work desktop), dialing in from my home phone for the sound. I suppose I could start GoTo-Meeting from my home laptop, but the problem is that then I wouldn’t have access to any of the documents I’d want to share. I am contractually forbidden from transferring work data to a private PC.

Is there any workaround? Surely after all the lockdowns I cannot be the first one with this problem.
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GlennD
GoTo Manager
5 years ago

Thank you. As the work desktop is virtualized GoToMeeting is not going to be able to share it's screen. My suggestion would be to host the meeting on your Laptop, share it's desktop and then have your connection to your work desktop open displaying the documents. The attendees will see whatever is on your Laptop's screen, so they will be able to see the work desktop you are viewing.

 

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    susan15
    New Contributor
    5 years ago

    Thank you for the workaround.  It is not ideal because of the small screen size and resolution incompatibility between my laptop and desktop, but I suppose it is the best that can be done under the circumstances.