remote-access

Best way to enable desktop access to PCs on a remote network

What is the best way to enable remote access (for desktop support purposes) to a network where there is a single server on a fixed IP and a number of Windows DHCP clients (all with internet access, but the clients are all using NAT for external access) ...

How to see the other person's mouse pointer during Remote Assistance?

Not being able to see what the other person is doing with their mouse makes remote assistance a lot less useful. Is there a way to make it visible to the other party? ...

Best option for web-based remote access to client computers?

I saw a similar question on here, but I'm looking to be a bit more specific... I'm in need of a web-based remote access solution that will allow me to log-in to clients' computers from my office. I run Linux, and various clients of mine run Windows and Mac OS X. Is there a cheap/free solution that is: Browser based (no client install...

Visual Studio with a Remote Server

Hello, The site that I am working on is at a remote server. I want to work on it locally. Are there any tools better then that in Visual Studio for working with a remote website? ...

Developing via Remote Desktop

Has anybody any successful remarks about having a team working via Remote Desktop? In many workplaces, we put end users via Citrix and the applications on a central, powerful server. Sometimes the clients are in the same building as the server, but often, they are remote. There could be some huge benefits for me to put my developers on...

BizTalk: In the remote connection dialog, is there any way to force TCP/IP transport rather than Named Pipes?

I am trying to connect to a biztalk instance over the network, and not being all that successful. The SQL server with the biztalk databases on it has named pipes disabled. When I try to connect to the server that has biztalk installed, it gives a named pipes error. When I try to connect to the database server, it just times out and gives...

Difference between RDP/Terminal Services and VNC Streaming Techniques

As part of a client support tool, I'm wanting to provide some functionality to be able to request to view/remote control a desktop session. There are a bunch of ways to get a screen capture and then stream it, but I'm wanting to find out in particular, why the RDP (Remote Desktop / Terminal Services vs. VNC experience is so different. I'...

How to admin a remote Windows Server with a command line interface?

When I was a Linux admin I could do anything from the SSH command line. Now, as a Windows admin, I have to deal with the Windows Remote Desktop graphical interface, which I found to be inefective (slow) and hard to automate tasks in it. a) Can I connect to a Windows Server through SSH or any encrypted connection with command line interf...

Is it possible to remotely "assist" a Mac OS 10.3.9 system from Windows?

I need to assist my computer-challenged aunt with setting up a new printer to her OS 10.3.9 system. In the past, I've used TeamViewer on Windows, which is dead simple easy to use...which is what I need in this case. I know TeamViewer has an OS X version, but it requires at least 10.4. Anyone know of a VERY simple to connect remote "ass...

SSH login warning message on a server with 2 DNS names

I am doing ssh to server x1.example.com from a laptop sometimes from outside and sometimes from lan. From lan I just say ssh karl@x1 and from wan: ssh [email protected] But from lan I get always a warning: remote host identification has changed. I can delete the other key in the known_hosts file each time, but I was wondering i...

How Systems like AdSense and Webstats Work?

Hi Dears! I am thinking about working with remote data and receive or send data actually in external web sites. exists a large amount of examples in World Wide Web are working. For example: free online web tools like web stats OR Google's AdSense .... .you know in such web services some code will generate for publishers and the publisher...

Remote X Display with Fedora 10 running KDM and XFCE

I am developing a JSF web application on a Windows box using Emacs as my editor but I far prefer to use Emacs in a Linux environment. In the (somewhat distant) past it was a no-brainer to use a remote X display to accomplish this very useful programming aid. Cygwin helps out somewhat but true remote X is the preferred solution. Howeve...

Copy file to remote computer using remote admin credentials

I am using C#... I need the ability to copy a set of files to about 500 unique computers. I have successfully been able to use the LogonUser() method to impersonate a domain account that has the required permissions to copy the files. The destination path for the files is something like: \\RemoteComputer\C$\SomeFolder My questions i...

WebDav connection/authentication with PHP

Okay, so the PHP script exists on serverA. ServerA has php safe-mode ON and WebDAV OFF. I can't change either of these factors. I want a script on serverA to get the user's login/password for another server, which we shall call serverB. ServerB has WebDAV ON. The ultimate goal is that the user will go to the script on ServerA, put in t...

Text editor for editing files over ssh

I can't find any free programmer-oriented text editor that would run on windows and would edit remote files over ssh(sfpt). Any suggestions? ...

Silverlight, SQL Server & Visual Studio: Making test page publicly available on internet

I'm working on a SQL Server 2008 Express + silverlight project, and so far things are working pretty well on the local machine. I've set it up to where the silverlight app connects to the SQL Server using a service reference and LINQ, and I believe the SQL Server allows remote connections with TCP/IP. However, since the silverlight app ...

How to run javascript on the server

I'm writing an iPhone app that needs to interact with the Google Maps API, therefore I must user Javascript (please correct me if I'm wrong) to access the results and the route created. Since the Javascript support in native iPhones apps is quite poor and slow, my idea was to ask a remote web server to do the job for me. That server wou...

Visual Studio: Load a Project from a Remote Location

With Visual Studio (2008), is it possible to load a project (to a solution) that exists on a remote location ? Basically what I want to do is somehow "host" a VS Project online and then load this project to a solution from a remote location. Is this possible in some way? This is so that I can keep integrity when loading my Utils Libra...

Using advapi32.dll:LogonUserA() to impersonate a remote machine's local user

I need to be able to run RegLoadKey() on a remote machine, and it may be that my machine and the remote machine are not in the same domain. If they are, the below code works OK and I can impersonate a user that has admin privileges on the machine. Otherwise, if we're talking about local users, according to this discussion I found... htt...

RasGetConnectionStatistics() query

Code Snippet: LPRASCONN lpRasConn = NULL; RAS_STATS *lpStatistics; lpRasConn = (LPRASCONN ) calloc (sizeof(RASCONN),1); lpRasConn->dwSize = 0x53c; lpStatistics = (RAS_STATS *)calloc(sizeof(RAS_STATS), 1); // Call RasEnumConnections with lpRasConn = NULL. dwCb is returned with the required buffer size and // a return code ...