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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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Use Services Snap-in to Manage Remote Computer not Connected to Domain

I have remote machine that I would like to manage using services.msc. The machine is not connected to the domain so I can't run the management tools as a user that the remote machine knows about. When I use eventvwr, I'm able to specify a user that…
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How to use Salt Stack with minions all behind NAT (not publicly accessible, default salt ports not open)?

Can Salt Stack minions communicate with the salt master from behind NAT/Firewalls, etc., using standard ports that would be open be default in all consumer NAT routers (and without the minions having a public DNS record or static IP)? I'm working my…
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How do I secure a Dell Idrac card?

I'm trying to completely lock down a server which has to exist outside of a firewall/directly routed to the internet and whilst I have hardened the base OS to the best of my ability, I had a moment of horror when I thought that if the worst should…
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SSH remote execute command with special characters

I have a problem executing a remote command through SSH that has special character in it. I'm trying to export a database from MySQL for back up purposes. This is the command I have in my local script: #!/bin/bash ssh user@host "mysqldump -u dbname…
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How to remote control Windows?

Is there a way to remote control a Windows machine as easy as I do with my other Linux pcs through SSH? I'm currently using a FTP server for files but I prefer the way I can manage my other linux boxes. I'd like it to be textual just like ssh, is…
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Using inittab to ensure sshd (and other important items) are still running -- any drawbacks?

Having managed to kill sshd on a remote machine (by running a script which used all available memory in the machine, oops...) which I have no access to other than visiting the hosting for[1], I was considering ways to ensure that sshd is always kept…
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How to "yum update" / "aptitude safe-upgrade" many hosts?

I have two books about Puppet and none of them mentions how to push yum update or aptitude safe-upgrade. So I am getting the impression that Puppet can't, which I find hard to believe. Question How would you push yum update or aptitude safe-upgrade…
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Keep ssh running as long as possible on server shutdown

I have remote linux server with paid kvm and very slow 'reboot on request' service. Now when I reboot server with 'sudo reboot' ssh disconnects me within 3-5 seconds, but then server sometimes continue running, I guess, waiting for some rc.d script…
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How to Run multiple command remotely using PSEXEC?

I am try to use multiple command with psexec tools but i am only remotely entered in that computer but it won't be perform another command psexec -i \\192.168.30.135 -u username -p password cmd & del abc.exe by using this command line parameter i…
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mongoDB won't connect remotely

I have installed mongoDB on a redhat virtual machine on EC2. The server is running perfectly locally, I can connect and execute commands, etc. Now, I tried connecting remotely from another virtual machine on EC2 but I can't get to connect regardless…
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Apache on Localhost to block incoming connections outside localhost

How can I make it that my local Apache installation works only as http://localhost/ and never from outside like using the IP of my machine when connected to a network please?
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What is the recommended way to permanently connect two remote linux based environments together?

We have a linux based environment hosted remotely and a few spare machines in the office. I'd like to use those machines as workers for the remotely hosted application though they would need permanent access to the hosted servers via the private IP…
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dead man's switch for remote networking interventions on Linux

As I'm going to change the network configuration of a remote server, I was thinking of some security mechanisms to protect me from accidentally losing control on the server. The level-0 protection I'm using is a scheduled system reboot: # at now+x…
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Unable able to run remote Powershell using Active Directory

We are trying to connect to a remote server via Powershell and use the ActiveDirectory module. When trying to do this locally, everything seems to be fine. PS C:\Users\bar> Import-Module ActiveDirectory PS C:\Users\bar> Get-ADUser…
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Can't connect to MySql server on remote server

Connecting to: CentOS v?? with MySql 4.?? in Nashville (example public ip=11.11.11.11) Stack: Cable modem as gateway > router with forwarding > CentOs Box Connecting from: Windows 2003 R2 in Dallas (example public ip=22.22.22.22) I'm trying to…
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