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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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Remote Diagnostics of Client PC's

I have an army of PoS (Point-of-Sale) client machines in the field. Most have an IP connection to the server. My challenge though is logging remote diagnostics from these machines. Things like temperature, fan speed, etc. to gauge the health of the…
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Ubuntu remote access

I have two pc in a network, now I'm far away from that PC, so because of this I installed Teamwiever. At the moment I can reach one PC(on that pc is running windows 7), I can reach the other PC as well(running ubuntu) but I get only a black…
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Pros/Cons of having a server room in your building

Here's the thing. Upper management would like to move our servers (domain controllers, file servers, accounting, payroll, the whole she-bang) to another building at least 15 minutes away. Not sure what the reason for the move is, as we'll have to…
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what are the various ways to monitor servers remotely

What are the various ways to monitor servers remotely unix and windows both.
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Is there a Virtuamin API to change feature and plugins activation?

I tried to find the virtualmin API command to change the available features and plugins, like I can do it on the UI in System Settings > Features and Plugins. It seems there is not. Also it's the same issue for some Virtualmin Configuration in…
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Open-source/COTS Remote monitoring software?

I'm looking for a piece of software (the freer the better!) that could be used to track the CPU/Memory changes on a remote system when I remotely startup a component, and have that software report back to the system I'm running from. The components…
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Remote Support Software Recommendations

Possible Duplicate: Best Windows remote support / screen sharing tools? What remote support software do you use? How much of your support is done remotely versus on-site? Any metrics your company is using to quantify the savings/profit remote…
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Access Denied when using a remote machine local user account

As a team . we need to drop files into a specific folder on another machine , a server, on same network & domain to perform some automation work Created a local user with admin access on server . Shared the credentials to all users to map that…
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How to force a logout at a specified time remotely for a number of workstations

Background: We have an application which uses a central database. Quite often it happens that some of the clients crashes, leaving zombies in the process table, which keeps the connection to the database. This creates problems during the nightly…
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Remote access to a machine without using customer network

I have a trouble with a machine dropped at a customer's factory and the customer doesn't want to physically connect the machine to his own network (administration, security leaks, ...). For maintenance or statistics purposes, I would like to connect…
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References for remote server setup

I'm going to setup a Linux server on a remote site. This server will be absolutly clean, nothing installed on it. People on remote site will receive the server, plug in network, power on and put in a CD/DVD. They cannot do anymore. I cannot get the…
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Is it possible to force a remote desktop computer to login as a specific user?

We are in a situation where users forget their domain password for local desktop access. We have a procedure where we contact their manager before resetting the password in order to avoid human engineering. However, sometimes the user needs their…
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How to redirect remote computer's output file to local using psexec

i can run remote commands without any problem and get output to my local machine with psexec. but one of the command can export result as xml so i also send this parameter to save output as xml. during the process it shows information about progress…
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