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Posted on April 13th, 2009 by Steve Cassidy
Feeling Remote
It wasn’t until I closed down my machine that I was caught working on the bank holiday. I should have been a bit more subtle and used a laptop; thing is I was having a bit of a mad moment with remote control utilities, and I find that there’s nothing as good as a really huge screen to make remote control a worthwhile thing to have. So no lappy.
What got me into trouble was how slowly the central window was running: Madame spotted the languid pace of the mouse, and Made Enquiries. Then I realised how many systems I was passing through: for some reason my OS X ICA session wouldn’t be given a licence by the Citrix server, so I ran a Windows VM under Fusion, then ran ICA client in that, then hooked up to the remote Citrix box, then started a VMWare Server Console session… and ended up having to use UltraVNC from there to get to a server outside the Citrix farm. Before telnetting into the layer 3 switch.
What’s the most nested layers of (different) remote control apps you’ve used?
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April 14th, 2009 at 11:37 am
To access my work network from home, I have use a VPN-like product that will only run from Windows (I use a Mac Pro). So I use Fusion to go into a Windows box, use said VPN-like to get into a Citrix box on the network. This is locked down tight so I RDP into my laptop (that we’re not allowed to take home) and then RDP or SSH into whatever server I need to look at. Takes a while…
April 14th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Once I had to access my company’s server while on holidays in Far East. All I had was 56kb/s modem and a public computer at the back of the local store running IE5. VPN was out of the question. Using VNC inside Internet Explorer I had to connect over insecure line to my friend’s PC. From there I could open a VPN connection to my company. I could not directly RDC into company’s server so I had to connect to the company’s desktop PC first. The rest of the story is quite much similar to James’s one.
I remember that due to nestled VNC/RDC’s I could not use [SHIFT] key properly so it took some time to login. :/