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Questions tagged [remote-access]

Questions about accessing a system or network from a remote computer or location. Consider using a more specific tag for your particular tool, e.g. VNC.

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Why some servers fail when execute "Get-Service"?

I have several servers connected in VPN to my host server. All run windows 7. I'm running in loop Get-Service -ComputerName $server -Name Spooler for each server. For some reason some of them return the service successfully and some don't saying…
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psexec - The specified network name is no longer available

i'm stuck right now on executing psexec to a target machine and getting below error. psexec \\ABC -u DOMAIN\user -p **** cmd /c ipconfig /all PsExec v2.2 - Execute processes remotely Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals -…
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Enable non-admin remote access to IIS Manager

I have a server running Windows Server 2012 R2 with IIS 8.5. I've configured it for remote management, and I am able to successfully connect to the IIS mangement service (on this server) from another computer, as long as I login with an "admin"…
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Managing mulitple devices behind firewall remotely

I am looking for a solution that would let me remotely access multiple devices from a central server. The devices are preinstalled with custom software but their network conditions will be unknown and probably under 3G or NAT restricted WiFi…
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Remote shutdown of Dell PowerVault MD3000

It's heating up down here (Australia) and we always have power issues over the summer at one of our sites. We have a reasonable UPS with massive batteries and run an agent on our Servers that shuts them down after a specific period, but I'm…
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SQLSTATE[HY000] [1130] Host xx.xxx.x.xxx is not allowed to connect to this MySQL Server

I have 2 servers with digitalocean - web (nginx) and database (mysql) servers - and can't get a connection from the web to the mysql server. From what I've read in other SO posts on the topic, the error I'm getting is 'good' in that it shows mysql…
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Unable to RDP as a Domain User

I am facing a problem remoting into a machine using a Domain account. Problem Facts : The Host VM's are hosted by Company A (read Domain A). The VM's have a local administrator as well Domain 'A' based User accounts who are on "Administrators" on…
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How do I stop service on remote server, that's not connected to a domain, using a non admin user via PowerShell

I've got the start of the script to achieve this: $SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString –String $Password –AsPlainText -Force $Credential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $UserName,…
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winexe gives error "ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED"

I'm trying to do a remote execution on a windows host from Linux with winexe. I get the error: ERROR: Failed to install service winexesvc - NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED The authenticated user should have administrator rights. What exactly does this error…
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remote Powershell script Scheduled task

I am having trouble running a Powershell script as a scheduled task. The script remotely logs into two Hyper-V hosts, queries the replication status and emails the result back to me. The script works fine when I run it manually, either in…
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When does it make sense to use Terminal Service Gateway?

We've been using XRDP which was developed by one of the fellows who used to work at my company, but I'm pretty sure it's not being too actively developed any more and we're running out of people who care enough to administer Linux (except for…
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"Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer" is grayed out on Windows Server 2008 R2

I just reinstalled Windows Server 2008 R22 on my Dell PowerEdge 2950 server. I am attempting to configure the server to be able to allow remote access from another computer on the network. The "Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer"…
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Windows Server to Server copy, executed remotely, process overview

Ok so I've got 3 servers in this example Server_A, Server_B, Server_C I want to move data over the network from Server_A to Server_B by executing a batch script on Server_C, it would be something like this. robocopy "\\Server_A\Share\"…
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Remotely determine how long a user has been idle

How do I determine how long it's been since a user with files opened on my server has been actively using their workstation in a Windows Active Directory environment (XP, 7, 8 clients and Server 2008, 2012)? Before rebooting the file server I check…
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Execute command on remote computer and show UI to logged on user

since I could not find any proper solution online, I'll ask here. I have a bunch of computers where I want to execute a program and show the programs GUI to the currently logged in user. Afaik this is not possible with Powershell (Stop/Start of…
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