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.
Questions tagged [remote-access]
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Is there a lightweight way to start an application on a remote win7 machine from linux?
I am trying to find a lightweight way to start an application on a remote Windows7 machine from linux.
The following are my boundary conditions:
The Windows7 system is located in the same subnet on the same LAN as the Linux machine.
If needed, a…
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RSAT slow performance
We are running Win 7 SP1 RSAT with a Server 2003 DC. We mainly use it to reset AD passwords. The performance is extremely slow (one minute of non-responsiveness per password reset). How do we improve the performance?
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Is there an alternative to 'classic' client Vpn, using only a browser?
i would like to allow my company employee, to connect from outside office to our server using the browser.
Does exists some product that emulate a 'virtual web desktop' (like an RDP session, for example) which allow to lunch our company standard…
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How do I configure the Web Management Service so I'm not prompted for credentials to manage a remote IIS server
I have IIS 7.5 installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I have the Web Management Service configured to use Windows Authentication (including the WindowsAuthenticationEnabled registry key set to 1).
From another my workstation on the same domain as…
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Can someone recommend a single-port IP-KVM?
I'm looking for a small rock solid device I can configure with a static IP or DHCP and ship somewhere where a moron can hook it up to a server and I can access the box.
Quality software with quick reliable response so that I can configure RAID etc…
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Sharing and Security model for local accounts: Any reason to use this Setting in a domain?
I am trying to solve an issue I have with logging into computers with local users remotely, and stumbled on this setting in GP on our Domain controller:
This might solve my problem, but than there is this little sentence:
And my question: If this…
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Why does TERM=xterm have to be set for my script to work correctly when remotely executed?
I'm attempting to automate the installation of a Debian server (debian 6.0 squeeze 64bit).
Part of the installation requires the Sun JRE package to be installed.
This package has a licence agreement, which has to be accepted. I have a script which…
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Remote Access Server for design software
I am thinking about setting up a server for multiple clients to log in to (2 at the same time max), so that people away from the office can use our (resource hogging/CPU intensive) design software over our VPN. My questions are as follows:
Is it…
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Which is the best way, if possible, to maintain a remote X session that survives network outages, reboots etc
Even since I read the chapter about X in Unix Haters handbook I still thought that X was one of the things that make unix superior to Windows, since it makes it "possible" to work on machines remotely with a graphical user interface.
But after using…
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How to shutdown a virtual machine on ESXi5 over an ssh terminal session?
How can I shutdown a virtual machine when I am on the commandline of an ESXi5 host over ssh?
Sidenote:
To enable scripts on other machines to login to the ESXi without password, add the public key of the user on the other machine to the ESXi's…
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One-To-Many Powershell Scripts
I'm trying to create a script to run as a scheduled task, which will run against multiple servers and retrieve some information.
To start with, I populate the list of servers by querying AD for all servers that match a certain set of criteria, using…
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Open Source GoToAssist Alternative
We're trying to trim our budget and one of the items that I believe we can trim is our GoToAssist account. Granted it is not that expensive but I have to think there is a lot of open source RA software out there. Of course I am aware of VNC but I…
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Restore a saved Remote-Desktop Password?
Some fool in my company has scrapped the page with the root password for our hyper-v server.
Fortunately I've saved the password in the Remote Desktop Connection, so I'm able to connect remotely. How can we restore the password without forcing a…
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Getting "No such interface supported" when connecting to a remote Performance Monitor
I have 6 machines:
2 x Windows 7 32-bit (W71, W72)
4 x Windows 2008 R2 64-bit (W2k81, W2k82, W2k83, W2k84)
I want to access the W2k8 machines' performance monitors remotely from the W7 machines.
It is only a testing environment, so:
the machines…
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Automating help desk tasks using a Powershell web interface
I'm looking into implementing Powershell in a help desk environment to automate routine tasks like unlocking user accounts, resetting passwords, etc.
The help desk will be supporting different customer sites remotely from a location that does not…
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