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Post September 17th, 2008, 8:39 am

So I'm trying to find better ways to monitor who's on my network and being able to communicate with them as well.

Is there a program that would do this? I'm running Windows Server 2k3 network.

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Post September 17th, 2008, 8:39 am

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Post September 17th, 2008, 8:49 am

I use UltraVNC. Been using it for years. Much nicer than remote desktop in my opinion.

It's a perfect support tool as well as a variety of other things.

Can be run in stealth mode
Can monitor users desktop and disable your mouse and keyboard inputs.
Great for remote troubleshooting.
Can initiate chat with remote user.

http://www.uvnc.com/
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Post September 17th, 2008, 9:16 am

UltraVNC is a good free solution.

We use Dameware here. I like it more than UltraVNC, it is full of nice features like remote registry, services, remote cmdline, processes, eventvwr and you can send messages as long as the messenger service is running.
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Post September 17th, 2008, 9:20 am

thanks fro the quick replies guys.

does either of those show who is logged onto the network in real time?
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Post September 17th, 2008, 9:33 am

UltraVNC does not
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Post September 17th, 2008, 9:41 am

In Dameware you can see who is currently logged into a certain computer.
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Post September 17th, 2008, 10:15 am

hhmm, I'm trying out ultavnc at the moment. Is there a good configuration guide for this? thanks
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Post September 17th, 2008, 10:24 am

I think I got it figured out.... I'll post here if I have more questions about it. thanks again
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