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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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Running a single app on rdesktop to a Windows XP/Vista machine from Linux

I need to connect to a windows XP/Vista machine using rdesktop from Linux and execute a script on the windows machine. Of course, I will authenticate to the machine from the command line on linux. The -s option in rdesktop is supposed to be able to…
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Connect approx 30 users to a remote office

Info: My company has a base office in Little Rock and we are setting up a remote office in Virginia with approximately 30 users. We do A LOT of SQL and Oracle data manipulation (heavy processing). The SAN and servers that do this processing will…
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How do I determine which firewall ports need opened for web access to a remote system?

I am a web developer, and am working with a client who has a web service that is located at a specific IP/URL. Access to this is filtered by a firewall, so we need a few of our local machines and our web server to have access to the remote server.…
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Configure PolicyKit to allow non-local user to perform administration tasks that require authentication

On linux with policykit, if you try to use most GUI-based administration tools over a remote connection, they refuse to authenticate. I believe this is an issue with policykit (for example, system-config-firewall fails with the error…
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Remotely find wins addresses

I am needing the WINS addresses for about 150 machines or so. Some users are logged onto desktops and I would rather be able to check this information remotely than having to go look at their machine. In short, is there a way to check what entries…
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Blocking GotoMyPc on ASA 5505

I am trying to block GotoMyPC traffic using a Cisco ASA 5505. On gotomypc.com they say you can block all traffic to poll.gotomypc.com to stop all access. What I have done is create a network group that contains the objects that referencethe IPs for…
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R710 - DRAC Configuration IPv4

* Resolved by rolling back to DRAC6_FRMW_WIN_R279926.EXE * Having an issue with a new R710 where I cannot enable IPv4 on the iDRAC card. I have tried enabling IPv4 and setting static IP, Gateway ect however when saving the settings it fails. This…
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access data/files from outside network

We need our users (6000+) to be able to access files from their "home" and "shared" drives outside of our AD network. We have considered VPN or global connect solutions, but these are too complicated for most of our users. (teachers and students) We…
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Create hosting accounts on the fly

Using VB, VBScript, ASP.Net or similar, on a Windows dedicated server, is it possible to create a new hosting account on my server and how challenging is it? With this, is it also possible to add a new domain name and point it at that particular…
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Security of remote management through MMC and other microsoft tools

When you connect to a server through an MMC console on a local computer (dsa.msc for example), what ports does the connection occur on? Is there any kind of protection from a rogue station hijaking the connection?
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Most secure way to issue commands on ubuntu cluster with sudo'ing user?

This is sort of a follow-up question to an unanswered question I have regarding administration of Cloudera cluster, but I figure generalizing the question to all of Ubuntu may help me get an answer. I want to be able to start/stop the same service…
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Enable-PSRemoting: Is there security threats?

I have two production servers (Windows Server 2008, Terminal Servers) and I would like to enable PowerShell remoting commands on those servers. Is there a security threat one should consider before running Enable-PSRemoting -force on these…
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I've disabled SSHD on my AWS instance. Any way I can re-enable it?

I have an AWS EC2 instance. I was trying lo lock down (chroot) an SFTP account to its home directory using this guide. And I've managed to lock myself out of the server as I can no longer SSH in. I don't think telnet is enable as I tried telnet…
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Why is RPC connectivity broken for the Hyper-V Manager?

I have a Hyper-V Server 2008R2 (Core) with numerous VMs running. This Hyper-V server is a member of a domain. Since the server has nothing running on it apart from the Hyper-V service, the only way to make changes to my VMs is through the Hyper-V…
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Remote linux installation

How should I go about installing debian to a remote server, that I have no physical access to? Background about the server: debian installation, no xen or lvm, ext3 fs takes all disk with 11G free space. Here's my plan of action, please comment and…
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