PictureTel Personal Whiteboard User manual

Personal Whiteboard
Setup Guide and Quick Start

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1
Setup and
Quick Start
This guide tells you how to connect and conÞgure the PictureTel
Personal Whiteboard (PWB) and gives some quick-start information
to get you up and running.
The Personal Whiteboard allows you to create and share a common
workspace with your colleagues, both local and distant. By
connecting the IWB or IFC to a PC with Microsoft
¨
NetMeeting
ª
,
and then connecting that PC to a PictureTel videoconferencing
system (VCS), you can interactively share and annotate documents
with people miles or continents away, just as if you were sitting in
the same room.
For more information on using the PWB or LiveShare Plus, see that
respective user documentation.

SETUP AND QUICK START
2
Minimum
Requirements
You will need these minimum requirements to use the Personal
Whiteboard.
❑
A Desktop PC with the following speciÞcations:
¥ A 200 Mhz Intel
¨
Pentium
¨
processor or better
¥ 32 MB RAM
¥ 8 MB of free disk space
¥ 2 available serial ports conÞgurable to at least 38400 bps
¥ 1 bus mouse port (must not be a serial mouse)
¥ Windows 95
¨
¥ An SVGA monitor with 800 x 600 resolution and 256 colors
❑
A Live200
ª
for Windows 95 videoconferencing system (VCS),
version 1.5 or higher, with LiveShare Plus, version 4.0 or higher
The PWB is also compatible with these Multipoint Control Units
(MCUs):
❑
PictureTel Montageª version 6.0
❑
PictureTel Prismª version 6.0

Connecting the Hardware
3
Connecting the
Hardware
The Þrst step in setting up your Personal Whiteboard is to connect it
to your PC.
To connect the PWB:
1. Connect the PersonalWhiteboard 9-pin serial cable to COM 2 on
your PC.
2. Plug the PersonalWhiteboard pen into the connector on the upper
right portion of the pad.
Installing your
Personal
Whiteboard
Software
After connecting the hardware, you must install the PictureTel
Drivers and Utilities Software for your PWB.
To install the software:
1. Insert the diskette labeled 1 of 2 into your diskette drive.
2. Click theWindows 95 Start button and choose Settings > Control
Panel.
3. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon.
4. Click Install.
5. Click Next to letWindows search for the setup file, and then click
Finish to start the installation program.
6. When prompted,insert disk 2 into your diskette drive and click OK .
7. Click
OK to continue with the installation.
8. Click the graphic button to continue with the installation.
A series of progress bars appear.
9. Click Yes to allow IFC setup to search the available COM Ports.
10. Click
OK to accept COM Port 2.
11. Click OK to make changes to your system.ini file.
12. Click OK to restart Windows.
Before the system reboots, remove the diskette from the drive.

SETUP AND QUICK START
4
Quick Start
The following section brießy describes how to start a data
conference using LiveShare Plus 4.0.
To start a data conference and collaborate using LiveShare Plus, you
need to start the Live200 application and then make your video call.
Refer to the Release Bulletin and Live200 documentation for more
information.
To start a LiveShare Plus session:
1. Start the Live200 application.
LiveShare Plus starts automatically.
2. Dial the video call.
3. If the far end site has LiveShare Plus installed, you will see icons
for the near-end and far-end sites.
4. Once the video call connects and LiveShare Plus shows that you
are in a conference, click on the LiveShare Plus toolbar.
The Share Application dialog box appears.
5. If you wish to share other applications, repeat step 4 for each
application.
6. Click on the LiveShare Plus toolbar to start the LiveShare
Plus whiteboard application.
FY I
F.Y.I.
When you installed the PictureTel Drivers and Utilities
software for your PWB, the PWB whiteboard software was
installed as well. The applications appear in
Start > Programs
> IFC
.
PictureTel strongly recommends that you do not use that
software for videoconferencing applications Ñ use the
LiveShare Plus 4.0 whiteboard instead.