Ditto on Logmein. I install and use the free version for every one of our laptops. No ports needed, just 443 I guess.
-----Original Message----- From: Osama Salah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports You are probably looking for something similar like the logmein.com service. Maybe there is an in-house solution out there. It works like Ben said: "The only way around that is to have the remote *always* initiate a connection to a system you control, and then use that as a back-channel to get in to the remote when you need to." You basically have a client software that always connects to a server. You connect to the same server and start talking to the client via the server. The client is not listening on any inbound ports. It's "pulling" your requests from the server and responding to it accordingly by sending the screen updates. Can't you update firewall/workstation rules via GP? If it makes it any easier, you can for example with dameware configure a remote control gateway server. All remote control sessions would have to go through that server, you can't talk directly to the workstation/server. That might add another layer of security, make firewall rules more restrictive (inbound port of workstation and source IP of the gateway). It would also give better centralized auditing. regards Osama Salah -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues 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> ~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This communication contains information that is confidential and may also be legally privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, disclosure, copying, distribution or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this communication or the information in it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- ~ 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> ~
