Some may shudder at the thought, but in the few isolated cases where I had
to monitor clients desktops in real time, I have turned to NetBus. It has
always worked quite well for me. It allows you to do a myriad of VERY evil
things as well, which is where it received a bad rep from. It turns out
that some BOFH's were using it to remotely open a user's CD-ROM tray.
Heehee.... I am still chuckling about that one. A precious gem if you work
in a cubicle world.
The SC can be found at Planet Source Code (
http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/ <http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/> ),
which is a pretty good starting point for anyone looking for SC.
Paul
(now don't all go driving users crazy by remotely controlling their
keyboards and mice.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Thad Jacobs [mailto:tjacobs@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 20:29
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Source code to run RB engine from icon (complet e
pr ogram)
would take a snapshot of the windows screen buffer, and save it to a remote
location on the network. It would take some pretty tight code to be able to
do this without the user noticing. I'd probably write this sort of thing in
C++, but we only got VB. I'm sure it could be done in 4Gl using standard
winapi calls, but I'm not sure how the execution speed would compare to
native x86 code.
Set the snapshot at admin defined intervals.... Securing the program would
be difficult on a 98 machine, a cinch on NT / 2000. If anyone's extremely
concerned with locking users down from everything not entirely job related,
that's a good reason to upgrade from 98 to NT/2K.
Of course I have better things to do with my programming time than play
peeping tom.....
$.00
thad
-----Original Message-----
From: Lonnie Drew [mailto:lonniedrew@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Source code to run RB engine from icon (complete
pr ogram)
The ability to remotely reboot and automatically log back in to
Vantage is the primary reason he's writing this - so tired of
the 'walk through' every time we have to shut down server.
In essense, what he's developing/deploying is a master program that
sends commands to client programs on user workstations. One such
client command closes Vantage, restarts workstation, logs into
network then logs the shop workstation into Vantage - this can be
done in real time/batch mode- all chosen workstations in sequence.
Also the ability to warn and kick off user if no activity after
certain time, disable workstation features remotely,
prohibit 'games', send message box to client PC - I don't know all
he's put in it. He did mention that some features are redundant with
Netmeeting (except monitoring desktop, hasn't figured that out).
If anybody knows how to view client desktop in real-time, it would be
an interesting addition to the program. Of course it would be
disabled on certain office personnel's machines.
Lonnie
to monitor clients desktops in real time, I have turned to NetBus. It has
always worked quite well for me. It allows you to do a myriad of VERY evil
things as well, which is where it received a bad rep from. It turns out
that some BOFH's were using it to remotely open a user's CD-ROM tray.
Heehee.... I am still chuckling about that one. A precious gem if you work
in a cubicle world.
The SC can be found at Planet Source Code (
http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/ <http://www.planetsourcecode.com/vb/> ),
which is a pretty good starting point for anyone looking for SC.
Paul
(now don't all go driving users crazy by remotely controlling their
keyboards and mice.)
-----Original Message-----
From: Thad Jacobs [mailto:tjacobs@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 20:29
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Re: Source code to run RB engine from icon (complet e
pr ogram)
>If anybody knows how to view client desktop in real-time, it would beYou would essentially have to have a program running on the client that
>an interesting addition to the program. Of course it would be
>disabled on certain office personnel's machines.
would take a snapshot of the windows screen buffer, and save it to a remote
location on the network. It would take some pretty tight code to be able to
do this without the user noticing. I'd probably write this sort of thing in
C++, but we only got VB. I'm sure it could be done in 4Gl using standard
winapi calls, but I'm not sure how the execution speed would compare to
native x86 code.
Set the snapshot at admin defined intervals.... Securing the program would
be difficult on a 98 machine, a cinch on NT / 2000. If anyone's extremely
concerned with locking users down from everything not entirely job related,
that's a good reason to upgrade from 98 to NT/2K.
Of course I have better things to do with my programming time than play
peeping tom.....
$.00
thad
-----Original Message-----
From: Lonnie Drew [mailto:lonniedrew@...]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:07 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: Source code to run RB engine from icon (complete
pr ogram)
The ability to remotely reboot and automatically log back in to
Vantage is the primary reason he's writing this - so tired of
the 'walk through' every time we have to shut down server.
In essense, what he's developing/deploying is a master program that
sends commands to client programs on user workstations. One such
client command closes Vantage, restarts workstation, logs into
network then logs the shop workstation into Vantage - this can be
done in real time/batch mode- all chosen workstations in sequence.
Also the ability to warn and kick off user if no activity after
certain time, disable workstation features remotely,
prohibit 'games', send message box to client PC - I don't know all
he's put in it. He did mention that some features are redundant with
Netmeeting (except monitoring desktop, hasn't figured that out).
If anybody knows how to view client desktop in real-time, it would be
an interesting addition to the program. Of course it would be
disabled on certain office personnel's machines.
Lonnie
--- In vantage@y..., "Troy Funte" <tfunte@e...> wrote:
> >Lonnie Wrote: We're also working on ...
> ...a way to remotely reboot workstations,
>
> You could do this with VNC, a freeware, cross- platform software
that allows you to control other workstations remotely. I've used it
to reboot the server from home, as well as reboot workstations. see
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ <http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/>
and www.tridiavnc.com
>
>
> >... remotely restart Vantage (after maintenance shutdown for
example),
>
> You can do this from a batch file.
>
>
> >... monitor user activity, etc.
> If you're talking about LIVE monitoring, VNC can be used for this
as well, but a small icon on the taskbar would let the user know they
are being watched, and there are some ethical concerns about 'big
brother' type stuff like this.
>
>
> Troy Funte
> Liberty Electronics
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