Each of the 3rd party remote tools has it's advantages and disadvantages.  I have used in my lifecycle pc-anywhere, vnc, dameware, timbuktu, and remote admin.  If you search for "Application-name exploits" each google search will turn up an amazing amount of exploitable features for each client.  In short, no third party tool will ever be able to take into consideration all of the aspects of all of the operating systems out there.  I happen to like vnc due to the client / server being able to run on a heterogeneous network of systems without much hassle.  The exploitability of vnc is easily blocked with a few basic network configurations and access lists.  Most of all, vnc is FREE!
 
 
Regards,
 
Dave Chianese
Delaware Investments
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT - VNC / Remote Administration

Sorry for the OT post, does anyone have any experience with VNC as a remote tool for your servers, more specifically NT4 Servers?
 
We use Terminal Services or HP Remote Insight (depending on what needs to be done) for our new core Windows 2000 AD servers for day to day administration, however, on our legacy NT4 domain, we have a number of NT4 servers which we a planning to move over to our Windows 2000 domain but not for another 6-8months. In this time they will still need to be remotely administered. They currently have PCAnywhere installed on there and it's something our security guy has recommended we removed and installed a different package on.
 
any feedback?
 
 - Frank
 
Frank Abagnale
 
 


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