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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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Is there a way to connect to Terminal Services "More Secure" from non-windows machine?

With Windows Vista and newer, when you enable remote desktop for administration, there are options to allow "Old Clients (less secure) [no network level authentication]" and "New clients (more secure) [with network level authentication]". Is there…
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Reconnect a Remote Desktop connection after rebooting the host

I often find myself connecting to a workstation or server with Remote Desktop to perform a task which requires a reboot. In these cases, I usually need to reconnect after the host comes back online to ensure everything went as planned or to continue…
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How do I remotely check for Microsoft .NET Framework 4?

I've been asked to verify that all of the engineering computers in our company have Microsoft .NET Framework 4 installed. All computers are currently turned on and are on our private network ...but all of the engineers are busy with their very…
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What is my BaseDN supposed to be with the following configuration of OpenLDAP?

I have the following in my OpenLDAP configuration. Using the latest version OpenLDAP on Centos 5.3. Installed using yum. From my /etc/openldap/slapd.conf database bdb suffix "dc=company,dc=com" rootdn …
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Dell DRAC console sessions won't time out

I've got a Dell DRAC 5 card connected to a PowerEdge 2900. I've used the console redirect successfully before, but presently the "console redirection" section shows "Active Sessions" = 2, so it won't allow any more console redirection sessions. I…
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Ssh and other services over openvpn are slow

I use openvpn to access my workplace network. When I ssh into a server(Ubuntu) over openvpn, as I type into the shell prompt the characters and letters appear slowly. So I should wait a little to see on the screen what I type. If I ssh directly…
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For IIS7 remote adminstration, it is necessary to be an admin?

I'd like to allow one of our developers the ability to remotely administer IIS7 on our Windows 2008 box using the IIS manager. This is not to manage an individual site, but IIS in general. I can connect to it remotely if I log in with a domain admin…
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How do I enable command line remote access to a Windows Server 2008 machine?

I have a Windows Server 2008 machine. 99% of the time, all I need to do to administer it is run command line commands such as hg fetch. I would like to move from Remote Desktop to just opening a (secure) command-line session. Some googling found…
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Wake all sleeping machines on subnet

Our company just migrated to Windows 7 and decided to use the included "balanced" power plan. The main problem with this is that I use powershell to do remote management and sleeping machines don't respond to these commands. Does anyone have a…
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Routing and remote access VPN setup

I am trying to set up VPN using routing and remote access. I've tried two configurations, one using a single network card, and one using two network cards. I can connect through my VPN and get assigned an IP address by the DHCP server, but I can't…
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access router web interface from outside (have ssh access to machine inside)

I'm trying to access my router web interface remotely, but I don't have access to the router for another few months (traveling). internally, my ubuntu server's IP is [192.168.1.111]. My router IP is [192.168.1.1] let's say the domain name…
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How can I Remote Access an IIS7 service with IIS Manager?

I'm trying to remote access an IIS7 machine, in our LAN. When i start IIS Manager, I do not have the Connect to a Server option .. as shown in the diagram, below. Anyone know how I can get this to show? What setting do I need to install? Powershell…
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Monitoring remote laptops

We're looking for something to monitor around 30 remote laptops that are constantly out on the road, never returning to base except for when there are serious hardware faults that need repairing. These laptops won't always be connected to the…
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Internal Use Chat/Desktop Platform

I did some looking, but I didn't see a SF question directly related to this. I need to find a platform for internal/LAN use only for chat and desktop sharing. We got a lot people having to get up and walk over to another person's office for simple…
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How should I remotely manage Dell Poweredge 2850 running Ubuntu server?

First I've got to say I'm a Linux / Ubuntu novice, so go gentle on me as I'm on day 3. I've managed to get Ubuntu server Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installed and running on the Poweredge 2850 I bought off ebay. The box will go in a rack at my office but I want…
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