RE: Remote Administration on W2K

From: Sean Rossi (Sean.Rossi@alexis.com)
Date: 07/30/01 

Subject: RE: Remote Administration on W2K
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:43:45 -0700
Message-ID: <5660A0609B0AD64C91D98EC5762143648150@nt5sdexch1.com2001.com>
From: "Sean Rossi" <Sean.Rossi@alexis.com>
To: "Sawyer, John H." <JSawyer@mail.ifas.ufl.edu>, "Brian McClory" <security_resources@hotmail.com>, <SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com>

I would use terminal services... with the tsweb client loaded. I never
see extra load on the server... however... I also load VNC just incase I
need a second in.

sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Sawyer, John H. [mailto:JSawyer@mail.ifas.ufl.edu]
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 1:30 PM
To: 'Brian McClory'; SECURITY-BASICS@securityfocus.com
Subject: RE: Remote Administration on W2K

Expanding on the suggestion of VNC, check out TridiaVNC and TightVNC
http://www.tridiavnc.com
http://www.tightvnc.com

They both add compression that works pretty well on slower connections.

<SNIP>
I would look into VNC by AT&T Labs. It seems to be very light weight,
and
most importantly has completely customizable ports, very important if
you
will be accessing through a firewall, and also adds a little security
through obscurity. Also, VNC is open source under the typical GNU
License
and all the source is provided.

Terminal services is something I strongly discourage. It causes
unnecessary
load on the server. I have never been a fan of PCAnywhere.

VNC: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
</SNIP>

--------------
John H. Sawyer
Computer Support Specialist
Environmental Horticulture Dept
University of Florida
jsawyer@ufl.edu
352-846-2581

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