Questions tagged [remote]

"Remote" - the term could refer to resources, access, control, user, presence, etc.

"Remote" could refer to either the network resource availability (e.g. "the user can interrogate the information remotely"), the user access to a network resource (as in "server access authorization through a Remote Desktop Connection/Protocol"), or even the location of the user related to the network accessed ("A Teleworker is allowed to connect remotely on 2 days per week through VPN/Remote Access, if there is a home office space available and all the conditions are met to allow the worker to perform the expected duties remotely").

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Is it possible to stop the "Beep" device on all computers in a Windows network?

On Windows the default behavior it to make an annoying "beep" sound every time Windows things something notable happened. The result is that when someone send a company-wide email via the MS Exchange all computers around my cubicle beep one by one.…
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How to troubleshoot a remote wmi query/access failure?

I'm using Powershell to query a remote computer in a domain for a wmi object, eg: "gwmi -computer test -class win32_bios". I get this error message: Value does not fall within the expected range Executing the query local under the same user works…
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How to debug problems over IM and the phone?

If, like me, you get friends, family, and coworkers with computer problems (whether it's server, desktop, or laptop related), who ask you to help over the phone or IM, how do you debug problems? I'm quite good at debugging hardware and software…
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Copying directories with subdirectories from QNAP NAS to Synology NAS

I have a QNAP TS-239 Pro NAS server, from which I need to copy a large number of files (>2 TB) to a Synology 409 NAS. I could do it with a Windows computer, but would prefer to do it directly from QNAP NAS without having to have a 3rd machine on.…
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RDP freezes as soon as you click connect while on VPN using native RDP, works fine with older RDCMan 2.7 app

This started yesterday for no reason I can figure. Some VPN users can get in if they use the FQDN, but most just freeze with short, fqdn or IP. I did notice if they are using Remote Desktop Connection Manger 2.7, they can connect no issue. So I'm…
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How should I proceed with establishing a Remote Infrastructure management system for my [small] company?

My company is having a small IT infrastructure. Details are: 125 computers One mail server One NAS and One database server We want to establish a remote infrastructure management system, where in our team located in another city can manage the…
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Dell Powervault ME4 (ME4024): unattended shutdown possible?

I'm rather new in this world of SAN devices/ESXi hypervisors and stuff. Some years ago we had had physical servers with internal storage connected to a USB/LAN UPS and whenever he had a power loss we would first trigger a clean server shutdown to…
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Windows 10 non-server edition Remote Shell

There a are two computers connected to the local network managed under organization domain. There are simple task list must be implemented on any machine. I want to abstract away that machine list to a script that can be executed simultaneously on…
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HP iLO4 Remote Console Java Applet display

We have an HP Proliant DL360 G8 server, with iLO4 installed. I normally uses Firefox to access the iLO web interfacefrom an Ubuntu server. The Ubuntu server hopped through 2 subnets to get to the iLO interface. ubuntu$ xhost + ssh -X…
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Postgres remote connection timeout works on one machine but not on another

im trying to connect remotely to a postgres database, after opening the connection for my public IP address on the server hosting the database, I was able to connect successfully to the database from my machine but not from the reporting server…
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AutoSSH through Firewall - Best practice for many devices on network?

My team is trying to find a solution to remotely access and update multiple Linux devices behind a firewall at several locations with their own firewalls. Traditionally, we would visit the business' physical site and update the devices with Ansible…
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PXE boot does nothing after NBP download

When client machine boots it succesfully downloads NBP file, next there is Windows Deployment Services (Server IP: 192.168.240.250) Contacting server ( 192.168.240.250): / And thats it, after a while I get an error message: Error code: 0x102 I'm…
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Remote Desktop to W10 with NTLM Disabled

We recently disable NTLM on our DCs (Default Domain Controllers Policy - Restrict NTLM: Deny all The problem is when some (not all) Windows 10 workgroup clients (connected with VPN) try to open a Remote Desktop to some Windows 10 Domain Clients they…
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GCE won’t allow me to connect

When I attempt to remote into my server through Windows Remote Desktop I get an error and it won’t allow me to establish connection to my server.
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Remote network monitoring when all comms fail

We had a circuit trip last night (Sunday evening 22:00) which killed all external COMMs ... so the alerting on our servers, inside the building, could not communicate out. Is there a solution to this? perhaps a SAAS which monitors/PINGs our servers…
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