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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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Tweaking Ansible output

I want to use Ansible to collect information from a number of servers. The information should be postprocessed locally, so it should be presented in a certain format. Other than grep and sed and awk and other sysadmin's best friends, how do I get…
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How to manage Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2?

I've installed Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 on a spare box. How do I configure and manage the server? I configured as much as I could find to be open on allow etc. Now back at my desk (Windows Vista 64-bit) I want to make the server do stuff,…
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Cannot Establish Remote Connection to MYSQL Database

want to access the MYSQL database remotely but when checking on yougetsignal(dot) com I get a message that port 3306 is closed. Configuration: Fresh Server (Centos 6.4 64 bit with Zpanel installed) Steps Already Taken: Removed bind address from…
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Possible to use a console cable from a Cisco ASA and use it interactively with ESXi?

I'm creating procedures to deploy a Cisco ASA and an ESXi machine to remote locations where no local tech contacts are available. I think it may be a wise idea to connect the console cable from the ASA to the ESXi machine to assist in local & remote…
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FortiClient (Windows 7 32 bit) shows 'connected' for an SSL VPN connection but can't ping the remote server

I am trying to connect to a remote server through FortiClient for an SSL VPN connection. When I connect through the FortiClient (version 4.3.5.472) on my windows 7 32-bit system, it shows connected. But when I try to ping the server, I am not able…
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Remotely Deleting/Wiping a Laptop

A client of mine wants to be able to remotely wipe employees company laptops upon termination. Does anybody know a good way of going about that? I know Lojack for laptops has this capability...
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How can I start a process on Windows 8.1 remotely from Linux

I tried winexe - it worked fine for Windows XP and Windows 7 But it doesn't work for Windows 8.1. All I get is ERROR: Cannot open control pipe - NT_STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER The same command runs fine on older versions of Windows. As I understand,…
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How to connect through a proxy using Remote Desktop?

So I've got a home server running Windows Server 2003. I use a dual network card setup and Routing and Remote Access to link the internal, private network to the external connection. The external connection hooks directly to my cable modem (so no…
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I can't connect to mysql on a remote server

I'm trying to connect from an Ubuntu server to a RHEL6 server using mysql. I've tried telneting into the server as well as trying to connect with mysql. I've tried commenting out the bind-address but didn't have any success with that either. I don't…
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Does Windows Vista have app-level remoting or was I hallucinating?

I remember seeing a video a long while ago (before Vista was released) showing a method of remoting a single app rather than your entire desktop (allowing you to run remote and local apps side by side). Did this make it into Vista? Or do you need…
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Remotely unlock Hardware disk encryption

I am setting up a remote server at a collocation for a client and their primary request is that the data be encrypted beyond the boot partition. The main system will be in a dm-crypt LUKS container on the main drive, but since the kernel could be…
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Hardware to send a restart signal to a desktop motherboard

Have a cluster of desktop computers that are used to process data. Sometimes they crash and it would be nice of we could send a signal to the motherboards on them to restart the machine if we stop being able to connect via SSH. Is there a piece of…
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Target name resolution error when Hyper-V 2012 server is managed remotely

I have just set up a new Hyper-V 2012 Server and connected it to the domain. I attempted to follow the Microsoft documentation to allow remote management via server manager. I enabled remote management in the server configuration command menu. I…
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Getting started with active directory and cloud services

I am the 'IT guy' for a company that is rapidly growing and about to reach 100 employees. While my primary job is backend development for our websites and services; I am also tasked with setting up and maintaining PC's for our users. Currently I am…
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Can't connect to remote CentOS server, possibly disk full

We have a remote server using CentOS 5 with Apache 2.2/PHP/MySQL that have crashed due to possible hard disk being full. Can't access WHM - giving "500 Internal Server Error" Can't access SSH - giving "Server unexpectedly closed connection" after…
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