After-hours access via an ISP is one example.
I've had various cases where I could telnet to our company remotely
(colleges, friends, training companies, other countries, ...) but any GUI
interface wasn't going to happen. In many cases, neither was dial-up since
many places don't have dial-out modems. I find that its easier to get to the
Internet while traveling to non-homes than to get to a modem.
I can administer our UNIX systems, but not NT (and not an increasing number
of other items). Telnet is still the lowest common denominator so is the
most certain to be available wherever you are (worldwide). Especially when
X-Windows, HTTP, PCanywhere,... aren't generally supported when coming into
a company from the Internet. We don't support them.
GUIs are nice but rotten for remote administration unless you tote along
your own environment which I don't find desirable, especially when you don't
anticipate getting called.
(GUIs are also rotten for automating maintenance functions since you can't
automated clicking a button unless you get another tool. Each tool increases
the complexity of the support/automation environment which leads to
additional failures, more tools, and so forth. For example, how easy would
it be to automate an incremental backup of an NT server and then check the
list of files backed up for a specific files and, if they are not there,
send a mail message and trigger an SNMP trap?)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Steele [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 9:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Why not NT?
>
> The question to ask is why do you need access to a command window on the
> remote site? There may be a tool available to do what you need without
> requiring this access.
>
> Moving from a VMS Admin background to NT Admin, the hardest thing I had to
> unlearn was that I needed to access a prompt to do anything :-).
>
>
> Brian Steele
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ng, Kenneth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 1999 10:02 AM
> > To: 'Edward Gibbs'; 'Brian Steele'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Why not NT?
> >
> >
> > I am in New Jersey, the firewall is in Poland or Argentina, or
> > Bermuda (for
> > some reason this site always gets volunteers :-)). How do I
> > securely access
> > a command window remotely?
>
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