Re: Remote Access / Web Access

[Don Sykes <dsykes@INTERPATH.COM>]

As part of a much larger remote access project,  our company uses Windows NT, 
Terminal Server with Citrix for this.  We loaded Reflection X on the NT server 
(pick the X emulator you like, we use Reflection X because they have a version 
specific to Citrix and multi-user access) and remotely control a NT session 
using the Citrix client.  Its not like sitting at the console but actually 
works quite well for remote access.  I would suggest at least 1024x768 
resolution on the client to display a map you can read.

Hope this helps....

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrick McNeil 
  To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:00 PM
  Subject: Remote Access / Web Access


  Hello everyone,
   
  I am currently being tasked with coming up with a remote access solution for 
our network support group.  My first suggestion was load X-Windows Server 
software on a laptop and the on-call person can take the laptop home and 
dial-up for remote access.  Unfortunately when I tried it, it takes on the 
order of about 15 minutes before NetView is actually usable when dialing up.  
What I mean by usable is that you can actually look at the event log see what 
is down, etc.  
   
  The next solution seems to be web access (which I haven't tried remotely, 
yet).  It looks like you have to have a read-write map open to do this.  Which 
is fine during the day, but at night the desktop people want everyone to log 
out (which then kills the web session).
   
  Is anyone doing some type of remote access for their administrators?
  Is there anyway around the read-write map access? What about in version 6? 
What about 3rd party?
   
  Thanks,
   
  Patrick

As part of a much larger remote access project,  our company uses Windows NT, Terminal Server with Citrix for this.  We loaded Reflection X on the NT server (pick the X emulator you like, we use Reflection X because they have a version specific to Citrix and multi-user access) and remotely control a NT session using the Citrix client.  Its not like sitting at the console but actually works quite well for remote access.  I would suggest at least 1024x768 resolution on the client to display a map you can read.

 

Hope this helps....

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Patrick McNeil

To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu

Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 3:00 PM

Subject: Remote Access / Web Access

Hello everyone,

 

I am currently being tasked with coming up with a remote access solution for our network support group.  My first suggestion was load X-Windows Server software on a laptop and the on-call person can take the laptop home and dial-up for remote access.  Unfortunately when I tried it, it takes on the order of about 15 minutes before NetView is actually usable when dialing up.  What I mean by usable is that you can actually look at the event log see what is down, etc. 

 

The next solution seems to be web access (which I haven't tried remotely, yet).  It looks like you have to have a read-write map open to do this.  Which is fine during the day, but at night the desktop people want everyone to log out (which then kills the web session).

 

Is anyone doing some type of remote access for their administrators?

Is there anyway around the read-write map access? What about in version 6? What about 3rd party?

 

Thanks,

 

Patrick