Home Network Management Tool

[danrhodes]

Hi,

 

I am looking for a good home network management tool. I would like it to have the following spec:

 

Manage Shares

Add and Monitor Devices

Remote Access and VNC to other workstations

Monitor Vital Statistics

 

 

If you have any title I would be ver gratefull.

 

D

[Michael]

You can View Shares either from Network Places or within Admin Tools > Computer Management > Shared Folders

 

Add and Monitor Devices? Could you give an example?

 

Remote Access, either Remote Desktop or VNC like you suggested

 

Vital Statistics - Either Task Manager or Admin Tools > Performance or Event Viewer

[Tamarside]

Not too sure what you mean by monitoring shares, but all the rest (and a GREAT deal more!) you can do using Spiceworks - get it at Spiceworks - Free Network Monitoring Software for Network Management

 

It is an absolutely suberb tool. In fact we use it on our school network and it copes just fine (even though they say it was meant for smaller networks). We now know what printer consumable levels are at any point just by running a report and we get all sorts of automated alerts.

 

Best of all, it's free. Well, ad-supported, but the ads are off to the side.

[dalsoth]

Sounds like you want Windows Home Server.