Starting a peer to peer collaboration session

About this task

To start a collaboration session and allow others to join the session, start a peer to peer session with the required target and become the master controller by completing the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Start a peer to peer session with a target.
    For details on how to start a peer to peer session, see Starting a peer to peer session.
  2. Click Open the collaboration panel for multiple controllers in the controller window toolbar
    when the session starts.

    The Collaboration Control Panel opens and you are now the master controller for the session.

    Figure 1: Collaboration Control Panel

    Collaboration control panel window for master controller to control session activity

  3. Click Start.

Results

You can allow other participants to join this remote control session. When other participants join the session, use the functions within the Collaboration Control Panel to control the activity within the session. For more details, seeControlling session activity as the master controller.

Click Handover to pass full control of the session over to another controller user. For more details of this feature, see Handing over a peer to peer collaboration session.

Note: When each new controller requests to join the session you are asked to accept the request. You can configure the controller so that you are not asked to accept these requests. For more details see, Hiding the master controller acceptance window.