Remote Management and Proxy server on windows network


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What type of infrastructure do they have in place now? Are you looking for an appliance you pop onto your network, or something more DIY? Is there a budget?

Are the machines all members of a AD? What OSes?

If they are running windows, providing access to one machine remotely would allow that machine to shutdown any other machine on the nework -- with the right permissions set, etc.

Some understanding of your current setup is required to point you in the right direction to accomplish your goals.

I have to wonder why bible reading xians would need filtering for? They should know better than to look at porn -- don't they know they will burn if they do?? :rofl:

barracuda 210 web filter http://www.barracuda.com it will run you about $2500 with 3 years of updates it is a hardware device that sits between your router and your network switch kind of like a proxy but also does virus and spyware inspection before it gets to the workstation.

dameware mini remote http://www.dameware.com 30 day free trial and you pay per administrative seat, not by workstations.

They currently have a workgroup setup about 30 machines all running XP /2000, - the admin just want to make sure that they cant access anything nasty.

Was considering a Open DNS / WDDRT router setup, since the budget is low / free. Worth it? Or should I roll my own Proxy with Squid?

Was looking at http://www.code4ward.net/main/ for the Remote stuff. - Any good?

you could use vnc, but logmein is much more stable and you don't have to open up any ports in your firewall for offsite management. you should have a content filter to stop them from accessing anything nasty, unless you block everything but approved sites with the proxy you will have issues keeping up with everything out there. content filters aren't cheap, low budget, esp with AD integration.

dameware is cheaper, (dw miniremote is 99 per admin station) even if you went with nt utilites at 289, if you had 1000 computers to support and you installed in on your computer it would cost you 289, if you have 100,000 computer and you install it, it will cost you 289. if you were to install dw utilties on your computer and on another helpdesk person's computer it is 289x2 (578). it isn't per seat, it is per admin console (you would be considered an admin console, customer service would not). best thing about dameware, it auto installs on a user's pc you don't have to go around and physically install it on everyone's pc. you can use wsus to push windows updates which is free from microsoft.

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that will work

http://www.logmein.com

setup an account and have as many machines you want to access in that account. you can setup groups for multiple sites and/or multiple accounts. all free. if you want more features other than remote control you have to pay for it (printing, file transfer, system monitoring, etc). I have had over 300 free machines on one of my accounts, not a single instance was purchased.

If your running 30 machines then Im assuming you have some sort of microsoft based server 2000, 2003, or 2008 then remote administration is built in. Especially with tools such as GPMC and PSTOOLS as for Filtering websites using proxy Id Recommend OpenDNS as well or use IPcop on LINUX (which yes techincally you could run a Virtual machine for) or just put a cheap machine together. IP Cop does use Squid as well.

Weve deployed both methods and both work well.

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