I am guessing you don't have a development staff, but if you did have a development staff you could probably pretty easily replicate what GoToMyPC is doing. Have one of them create a Windows Service that runs at startup. The service would run a VNC listener as well as a persistent connection to a web server you setup. That web server would track the connections by IP and basically host a proxy service that would redirect requests to the box to the persistently connected machines. Since the ports will already be open there's nothing to worry about on the firewall to all those machines.
Jeff "Oliver Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/28/2008 08:22 AM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> To "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: OS Remote control app without open ports Yeah, we did think about that, along with the various other web based vendors, but cost wise it quickly becomes quite savage. I was hoping to invest in something we can manage here. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 April 2008 11:42 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports A GoToMyPC account with the software installed on every laptop will let you login to their website and see which PCs are available for connection. As long as a machine has an HTTP/HTTPS outbound connection to the GoToMyPC server you can use this with no user intervention. "Oliver Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/28/2008 04:20 AM Please respond to "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> To "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: OS Remote control app without open ports Hmmmm That looks pretty interesting for one-off jobs. Though I'm after something that we can apply to hundreds of machines and not require the end user to do anything, Crossloop would fit in as a replacement for our Copilot account. ta -----Original Message----- From: Shawn Everett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 28 April 2008 05:50 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OS Remote control app without open ports I'm surprised no one has mentioned Crossloop yet. It's my favorite program for remote support. Shawn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:34 AM Subject: OS Remote control app without open ports Does anyone know of an open source remote control app (I guess anything like that would be VNC based) that will allow a tech to control a remote machine at will without requiring any ports to be open on the firewall at the destination end? I want to push something out to a ton of laptops and servers. The servers would be a management nightmare updating all the firewalls and the laptops will be moving around and therefore we wont have direct access to the firewalls to be able to set port redirection. Olly ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
