As already mentioned ... cheapie webcam is fine ... I found Yahoo IM would work through my firewall without any troubles ... and my firewall is pretty reasonable. so .. for what it is worth ... the software is free ... just get a cheap webcam and run with it. Randy On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:18 -0600, John Meier wrote: > Kinda OT here, maybe maybe not, > > Here's the situation - > > I have a brother-in-law that is serving the the military forces over > seas. I have a sister-in-law and a niece that are here in the states. > They have not seen each other in a long time. I'd like to set them up > with a web cam interface where they can talk/see each other. He has a > laptop with him (windows based I assume) > and she has a home PC - also windows based. The y can call each > other and talk, but I'd like to set them up with a way to at least see > each other. > > I have not dealt with web cams for a long time - and have no idea if > they can just connect (stright IP connection) or if there needs to be > some sort of broadcaster to manage connections. I'm willing to set up > a server (linux based in my case) to facilitate their connections. > > Any hardware/software recommendations? > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list