How do I connect to SQL Server remotely and administer my datbase objects? I need to connect to my database in the web hosting company's server. I have the server name, IP address, my database username & password. I have an installation of SQL server 2000 in my machine. I searched the net but couldn't find understandable links. Can I use...
We have an Sqlite DB on our Linux/PHP production webserver. What is the best way to manage it remotely? I've found some server wrappers are available and some applications claim to offer remote access methods. Any suggestions? ...
I have a linux dev server I watch, and lately its chugging at some points so I'd like to keep a better eye on it. I used to use Gkrellm, but its been a pain to try get Gkrellm to build on my Mac. Besides servering X remotely (which would not be optimal), I guess i'm looking for alternatives to Gkrellm. I would like a program that will...
I have a lot of people that ask me to fix their computers. Usually it is "slow computer" or "my computer has pop-ups," etc. In other words they have viruses and spyware. I thought I could use a remote program to do it, instead of them brining their computer to me or me traveling to their house.. I thought of UltraVNC, though I'm not ...
I'm in the process of writing a small web app that would allow me to manage several IIS installations on different servers on our network. We have no domain controller. I have written a small impersonation controller that uses the win32 api and its LogonUser method. I then use System.DirectoryServices and the IIS ADSI provider to create...
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...
Scenario. 3rd party admins want to administer systems with PS remoting/direct login of clients and servers behind NAT gateways. The systems are SBS 2003 or W2K3. all are behind NAT firwalls with varying RFC1918 subnets and no site to site VPNs (although a solution would likely require this.) Each site has its own unrelated AD setup. ...
I have a Perl Expect.pm script that does some moderately complex stuff like packaging applications, deploying the application, checking for logs, etc. on multiple remote unix hosts. My predecessor had written similar scripts using rsh. Is there a better approach between the two? Or should I use something all together different? I am...
I have written a windows service in C# that gathers performance, disk and memory information and writes it to the EventLog. It is enabled as a network service. What I would like to do is be able to gather this information from a remote location. This service will run at various client machines and I would like to retrieve this informatio...
Hello, I've got some troubles with Get-WmiObject and usage of this object. In case, I'm connecting to remote computer - which is not in AD, but in the internet. I'm using credentials and I'm able to retrieve list of WMI classes, or object (to be specific, I want to work with Win32_Process) via commands: $credential = Get-Credential $...
Does anyone know of a tool that would allow me to generate a report of the assemblies installed to the .NET GAC on all the servers in my web farm? (30-40 servers) Or alternatively, does anyone have a pointer or a link on some way of accessing the information programmatically, via WMI, or remote registry query, or some other technology?...
How to open/close ports on Zyxel Omni Lan EE modem through web- or telnet-admin? ...
I want to know what kind of technologies are used nowadays as underlying screen capture engine for remote administration software like VNC pcAnywhere TeamViewer RAC Remote Administrator etc.. The programming language is not so important as just to know whether a driver needs to be developed which is polling video memory 30 times per...
*Please do not pile on and tell me to just use SSH keys. If it bugs you that this is the way I am doing it, pretend that I am trying to telnet in instead. :-) * I am using an expect script to run some routine commands on a set of servers under my control via ssh. The script should run set of commands (eg svn update ~/folderx\r") on e...