Remote admin programs

[aiex]

Following on from confused's post it got me thinking, does anybody know of any remote admin programs that are secure, but don't require softwear to be installed on the viewing computer? Ie they could use a web browser or somthing?

Thanks in advance

ALex

 

[Jay]

VNC

Great prog with multiple OS support and Web Based access.

 

[RaySun2Be]

<< VNC

Great prog with multiple OS support and Web Based access. >>



What Jay said. He beat me to posting the link.

You install VNCServer on the PC to be controlled, and can use either the normal VNCViewer, or a JAVA Webbased viewer on the controlling PC (the one you will be sitting at).

I haven't tried the JAVA viewer but I use VNC quite a bit. And I haven't noticed the VNCServer taking up much resources when running RC5/OGR or SETI when not invoked.

 

[GeoffS]

Another vote for VNC!

Geoff

 

[CADsortaGUY]

<< You install VNCServer on the PC to be controlled, and can use either the normal VNCViewer, or a JAVA Webbased viewer on the controlling PC (the one you will be sitting at).

I haven't tried the JAVA viewer but I use VNC quite a bit. And I haven't noticed the VNCServer taking up much resources when running RC5/OGR or SETI when not invoked. >>



Well my experience so far using VNC is that on my celeron that WUs were taking forever!. I have win2k on that machine and when viewing tha task manager I saw that it would "hit" every 10-15 seconds (must be looking for incoming connections?) but it was only a 5-10% hit on the cpu. My other systems haven't really taken a VNC hit like the Celeron did. so I'd say make sure to set VNC up to use the LOWEST priority and you should be fine.

Unfortunately I don't think you can "hide" VNC (someone correct me if i'm wrong - please) as there is a VNC icon in the sys tray

CADkindaGUY

 

[poopaskoopa]

I don't think VNC has any encryption.

 

[Jay]

<< What Jay said. He beat me to posting the link. >>



Ray, an old man with a cane will beat an old man with a walker in any race.

 

[Hellburner]

VNC is the most user friendly but it does require some bandwidth, bo2k, sub7 and their ilk are stealthier and can use very little bandwidth. Their not that user friendly, and you don't want to be running any antivirus stuff either.

 

[SoulAssassin]

XP has the remote desktop and 2K server has Terminal Services. It does require an install on the machine you're connecting from but it fits on 2 floppys. It runs encrypted (user definable at 56 or 128bit) and is usable over 56k.

 

[m2kewl]

Aslo can use TightVNC, has additional compression features for low bandwidths.

 

[aiex]

Hmm thanks guys

I tried installing VNC on my win2k box and have been having a few problems. I cannot connect to it using the viewer and the web based client i just get a little line down the left hand side of the page. Any ideas? This box acts as a proxy server and an ICS server by the way, not sure if that has any significance


Thanks in advance


Alex