Jason, I agree that VNC does have it's place, and if I were only using it over a WAN, with permanent frame connections, I wouldn't hesitate to use it...but I am remotely administering devices over the Internet...which means that I have no way of knowing the dynamically assigned private IP's with my customers private network, the only devices I would know the IP's for, would be the publicly visible devices...however, with the gateway capability, I don't need to know what IP a workstation is currently using, just the netbios name of the workstation computer.
Jonathan Marsden Part-Time Geeks Computer Services. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] How do I see Salive program and change setup on terminal server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] at http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ has file transfer. It is still in beta but the basic features are stable. They are still working on some mslogon authentication issues. Once V1 is released they will be trying to add the "gateway" feature to v2.0. [EMAIL PROTECTED] RC 1.10 supports -Supported Operating Systems: Win9x/Me/NT4/Win2000/XP. -Auto Configuration and Quick Options for easy connections. -Viewer Toolbar and Hot keys for a quick access to the main functions and greatly improved ergonomy -Embedded File Transfer with intuitive Graphical User Interface allowing for easy file copy between local and remote computers. It uses the existing VNC connection and files are compressed during their transfer. -High Speed. A cutting-edge Video Hook Driver (kernel mode) for Win2000 and XP dramatically improves performances and reduces CPU activity over LAN connections. This lets you work on a remote computer with an incredible 'real-time' feeling (hundreds of screen updates per second). A WinVNC server under Win9x uses the standard hookdll in combination with ddi hooking to improve the updates handling. [EMAIL PROTECTED] also features an ultra fast Fullscreen Polling mode without any additionnal driver. -MS Logon/NT security support. You can manage server access using MS Users, Domains and Groups. It also includes a logging feature where all actions are written into a log file. -Bandwidth Saving Strategies that provide optimal responsiveness over slow connections: Server Screen Scaling, Cache Management , Local Cursor handling. -Data Stream Modification Plugin System allowing any kind of operation on the data exchanged between client and server, from an external DLL (independant, not linked and not distributed with [EMAIL PROTECTED]): additionnal rights checking, communication timing, data recording/persitence, encryption... it's up to the DLL developper. -Optional "always-on-top" Viewer Status Window dynamically displaying connection informations. -Various View Modes including Full-Screen, Scaled and Windowed. Full-Screen mode lets you see the remote screen on the entire screen of your display. Scaled Viewer mode lets you see the scaled remote screen in a window with a user defined size. Scaled Server mode generates less network traffic from server side and use a pixel blending algorithm to optimize the display. Fuzzy Mode combines Server and Viewer scalings to provide reasonable visual comfort and speed over slow connections. -AutoScaling Mode automatically calculates the viewer scale so the server screen fits the viewer screen. -Dynamic Single Window/Full Desktop view switching, from viewer side. -Server's Desktop resolution switching without disconnection. -Dynamic Mouse and Keyboard locking on remote server, from viewer side. -Server Screen Blanking, from viewer side -Embedded Client/Server Text Chat. -Possibility to send Ctrl-Alt-Del to the remote server (when WinVNC is run as a service), or any other special key code. -Support for 32/24/16/8 bits colors. -Both [EMAIL PROTECTED] Viewer and Server are compatible with RealVNC, TightVNC, eSVNC... [EMAIL PROTECTED] server can work as a Service under all supported operating systems, allowing remote user Logon/Logoff as well as Remote Shutdown. -Connectivity: Standard Viewer and HTTP JavaViewer connections over TCP/IP, as well as XDMCP direct X11 connection I used to use Remote Administrator. I find it is too slow and eats up a ton of bandwidth on my frame circuits. The refresh rate is better with [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is a beta release so an occasional crash does not surprise me but I would not be able to live it without it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Marsden Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] How do I see Salive program and change setup on terminal server. I personally use something like VNC for remote control, called Remote Administration 2.1, available from www.radmin.com . The advantage to this over VNC is that you can use one of your servers as a gateway, and coming in through that one, can also remotely administer any other server on the same backbone. This comes in handy if you have a need to work on more than one server, especially if the other servers are on a private network, and don't have a static IP address. I typically use a mail server, one visible to the Internet, as the gateway server. It is fairly inexpensive, is secure, and gives a couple of other advantages over VNC, such as file transfers, and telnet from the same console. Admittedly, it IS a workaround, but a rather elegant one. Jonathan Marsden -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brent Ozar Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] How do I see Salive progran and change setup on terminal server. Terminal Services gives each person that logs on a completely separate desktop. Even if the same person logs on twice, they will see two different desktops with their own applications running in separate memory space. This is great for security, and for applications like Citrix where you have dozens of people logging into the same server simultaneously, but it's not great for remote control of a server. I'm a Terminal Services fan myself, and there's a few workarounds. You can administer SA over Telnet, you can use VNC for remote control, or you can run SA manually over Terminal Services. To do that last one, you have to stop the service, run SA, make your changes, save them, close SA, and then start the service again. Sounds clumsy, but if you've got an urgent change you need to make that you can't do in Telnet, then it works, anyway. Brent To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. 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