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"Remote" - the term could refer to resources, access, control, user, presence, etc.

"Remote" could refer to either the network resource availability (e.g. "the user can interrogate the information remotely"), the user access to a network resource (as in "server access authorization through a Remote Desktop Connection/Protocol"), or even the location of the user related to the network accessed ("A Teleworker is allowed to connect remotely on 2 days per week through VPN/Remote Access, if there is a home office space available and all the conditions are met to allow the worker to perform the expected duties remotely").

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Simultaneous Remote Desktop Connections in Windows Server

I would like to remote control the administrator user of my Windows Server 2008 R2 simultaneously from 3 remote computers. To do that, in Group Policy, I disabled "restrict to a single remote desktop session" and I put "limit number of connections"…
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Two sites connected with wireless point to point: how to configure and ensure internet traffic goes through local broadband?

Scenario: Two offices a short distance apart. Let's call them Main and Remote. Both have ADSL broadband. Windows network in Main. Currently different subnets. 192.168.16.x in Main and 192.168.0.x in Remote, masks 255.255.255.0 We are proposing to…
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Use winexe to start a Windows process

When I'm on Windows I use PsExec to start processes on other Windows machines. I now have the case that I want to do that from a Linux machine. Fortunately there is winexe, a small program which should work like PsExec, just for the Linux-World. I…
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Cannot find Routing and Remote Access

I have a remote desktop server (Win XP SP3 German), and i need to configure a vpn. However, i cannot find Routing and remote access anywhere - I also tried with Start --> Run --> rrasmgmt.msc, but it says that the file doesn't exists. What is the…
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Pop up a message or run a program on remote windows 7 computer so currently logged on user can see it

How can you pop up a message or run a program on remote computer so the currently logged on user can see it. We have done this on WinXP, but these don't work with Win7. at.exe \\computername time /interactive message.vbs (time is hh:mm at least a…
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Free software remote assistance tool for double NAT

I need a remote assistance tool (i.e. tool that makes it possible to control another persons screen) that: works between two machines that are both NAT'ed behind different NAT-walls does not require modification of NAT-wall (i.e. port forwarding is…
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Remote additional domain controllers

Is it possible to setup several additional domain controllers (ADC) at remote locations that are connected via medium bandwidth DSL (2-10 Mbit) WAN connections for a single domain (intranet.example.com)? And would it be a good idea? We have five…
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RSYNC from remote to local excluding folders

How can I download from a remote server to local excluding folders or files? I have used something like this but the exclude doesn't work... rsync -avr -P -e ssh --exclude=/path/to/exclude/* user@ipaddress:/home/path/to/copy…
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Remote access of Linux over IRC

I have been tasked with setting up and supporting some computers for some people who have sociological problems. Troubled teens/adults and the like. They need computers to do very basic tasks like web browse, but they know little about computers and…
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Windows 7 workgroup remote shutdown

This is a strange, yet possibly easy question for many of you to answer but it's driving me crazy that I can't figure it out. I have two machines on a local LAN on a workgroup. I recently learned that you can use the shutdown command to remotely…
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Script to find out differences between local and remote file systems over SSH

I am looking for a script to find out the differences between a local and remote file systems (over SSH). Ideally the script should do the following: -browse the local file system for folders -find out whether folder is present on remote file system…
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how to mount osx drive to centos server?

how can i mount a hard drive on my mac to my remote cent os server? Would I need to set up an FTP on my mac? can it be done with with cifs or nfs? I'm sorry for sounding vague but i really have no idea as to how to approach this. I know how to mount…
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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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Enabling VPN for RDP *only*

I was wondering if it's possible to enable VPN for RDP only. I'm running Windows 8, and am doing a remote job for a client. However, I have all sorts of other things (downloads mostly) which I would like completed outside the clients VPN. Is there a…
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How Do I Move Remote Desktop User Profiles To Another Volume?

I am new to Windows Server 2008 and Remote Desktops, and have a handful of users (5) accessing a suite of applications by way of Remote Desktop sessions. The server is set up with a RAID 5 drive that is split into two partitions; 80GB on the C: boot…
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