I use Logmein for all my clients. It runs on only a few servers for each but from there I can RDP to each machine inside the desired LAN. Free is a very good price, no firewall mucking necessary.
Conceivably you can put Logmein on just one machine per network and from *that* machine RDP to wherever you need to. This way you're not even pushing a client piece to hundreds of machine and are leveraging built-in OS tools. For Win2K machines I do load VNC on them and from the Logmein box I VNC to my Windows 2000 targets. There are tools to remotely push VNC to clients as well, so it's a 100% free solution if you use Logmein free and VNC. Also, the single Logmein - then RDP / VNC to client machine doesn't require the client machine to have Internet connectivity working, just local LAN. My $0.02 Dave Lum - Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (971)-222-1025 "When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands" From: David Florea, SysAdmin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:41 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports Logmein Rescue was great but pretty spendy. RAdmin works well, not so spendy. David ________________________________ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports Anyone have a comparison of RAdmin and Logmein? Had a developer suggest going to Logmein Rescue, which I don't have a problem with, but was wondering how it compared to RAdmin, which I have used before. Thanks, Joe Heaton ________________________________ From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OS Remote control app without open ports Does it have to be "at will" or can a remote-user-initiated connection work? If the latter, then perhaps CrossLoop would fit the bill. Free and no port issues. Also, take a look at TeamViewer. And Famatech's Radmin Remote Administrator is a very cost-effective solution you should consider. Roger Wright From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues 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. 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