An urgent question, please help,

[midobashir]

Hey all,

 

I am a network administrator and i want to access my internal PCs remotly, but dont want to use Logmein or teamviewer or VNC, one of my friends told me that there is a software you can use to access all your internal PCs without your users knowing, and you can watch their screens and so on, could anybody tell me how can i do so ??

 

regards,

[FN-GM]

Yes VNC....

[midobashir]

I dont want to use VNC

[FN-GM]

Well there isnt much other that that can do what you want for free. The majority use the VNC technology. Why do you not want to use VNC?

[Admiral208]

As already mentioned, I would use VNC but you could also try something like iTalc

[6Foot2]

Why don't you want to use VNC?

 

You could use iTalc:

 

Link: iTALC [This has a VNC component built in]

 

This worked very well for us on XP [32 Bit] but does not work very well for us now that we have moved to Windows 7 [64 Bit]

 

What OS are your clients?

[midobashir]

all my clients are windows 7

[FN-GM]

all my clients are windows 7

 

VNC does work with Windows 7. We use TightVNC with windows 7.

[6Foot2]

VNC does work with Windows 7. We use TightVNC with windows 7.

 

...one of my friends told me that there is a software you can use to access all your internal PCs without your users knowing...

 

Something to bear in mind with VNC: The icon in the clients notification area changes colour when you connect to the remote session. There is a hack to change this behavior but I can't remember where to find it.

[FN-GM]

Something to bear in mind with VNC: The icon in the clients notification area changes colour when you connect to the remote session. There is a hack to change this behavior but I can't remember where to find it.

 

TightVNC there isnt its an option built into the software. We dont have that displayed.

 

There is a deployment guide here: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/network-classroom-management/74441-how-guide-deploy-vnc-via-group-policy.html

[GrumbleDook]

One of the things to be careful of is justifying why you are monitoring the screens of others and ensuring that you have the instruction to do so from your employer. The laws about this vary across the world, but even if you look at it on an ethical level it is a good idea to be open with people about it.

 

Also remember that if this is to monitor children ... Act 16 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

"no child shall be subject to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy….or correspondence"

 

And the exact interpretation of this will vary ... so be careful. Document what you are going to do and get backing from SLT.

[Duke5A]

I wrote a custom launcher for TightVNC to solve just this problem. In a nutshell it will copy the server EXE to the target machine, write the configuration registry keys, register the EXE as a service and start it, and connect the viewer. When the viewer is closed, it'll clean up everything on the target machine by deleting the files and removing the registry keys. This requires you to have local admin to the target computer, the remote registry service started, access to the admin share, and remote management enabled. The source and a compiled version are attached to this post. You'll need .Net 4.0 installed to run it.

 

You'll also need to enable Secure Attention Sequence in Group Policy for services on the client machine. Without this you will be unable to send control-alt-delete key sequences to the client to unlock it.

 

As GrumbleDook said though, you have to make sure this doesn't violate any expectation of privacy and that your users have signed an acceptable usage policy that states this can be done. Don't use VNC over a public network either without tunneling it through a VPN as only the username/password is encrypted.

ZenControl.zip

[techguy]

The tray icon can be changed via registry setting. So the user will never know that his PC is being remotely controlled.

 

Something to bear in mind with VNC: The icon in the clients notification area changes colour when you connect to the remote session. There is a hack to change this behavior but I can't remember where to find it.

[cpjitservices]

You can use Skeep VNC console to roll out VNC to clients..... You can customize which password to use and also the icon on the taskbar. Brilliant program and it's free.

[midobashir]

cpjitservices, i've used Skeep VNC and its really amazing, but do you have any guide for it ? cuz im confused and stumble of using it and and i will be thankful for you

[cpjitservices]

I'll see what I can do - where are you confused ? it's pretty simple!

 

cpjitservices, i've used Skeep VNC and its really amazing, but do you have any guide for it ? cuz im confused and stumble of using it and and i will be thankful for you

[techguy]

cpjitservices, i've used Skeep VNC and its really amazing, but do you have any guide for it ? cuz im confused and stumble of using it and and i will be thankful for you

 

 

midobashir, I don't have experience with Skeep. Do take a look at our VNC Deployment Wizard. It supports deployment of the latest version of RealVNC/TightVNC/UltraVNC and allows configuration of wide array of settings.

Please take a look here: www.s-code.com/products/vncmanager/

[midobashir]

how to deploy the packet to all users at the same time ? thats all i wanna know :)i installed it on my own computer which is join domain and i could see all OUs but i cant access them and i cant see the computers container as well, so i need a support from you

 

Regards,

[cpjitservices]

All you do is highlight all your machines in the OU and once configured...... hit deploy and it should ask for Admin credentials for your machines once you've done that it should work.

[speckytecky]

This is a pretty useful thread. It could be more useful if the title reflected the content!

[jargonbust]

you can use putty remote access software for the purpose

its light and secure

[Davit2005]

One of the things to be careful of is justifying why you are monitoring the screens of others and ensuring that you have the instruction to do so from your employer. The laws about this vary across the world, but even if you look at it on an ethical level it is a good idea to be open with people about it.

 

Also remember that if this is to monitor children ... Act 16 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

"no child shall be subject to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy….or correspondence"

 

And the exact interpretation of this will vary ... so be careful. Document what you are going to do and get backing from SLT.

 

When I notice the Internet speed is suffering and look thru the internect connections and spot a child is by passing our proxy server via a video proxy avoidance service what can we do ?

 

When the staff member is supposed to be in charge of what the students are doing!

Edited April 18, 2012 by Davit2005

[6Foot2]

When I notice the Internet speed is suffering and look thru the internect connections and spot a child is by passing our proxy server via a video proxy avoidance service what can we do ?

 

When the staff member is supposed to be in charge of what the students are doing!

 

Which LEA are you with? I ask because we recently moved over to HGfL's filtering integrated with Active Directory. Using this we can filter pages locally and generate reports about Internet usage. We can get reports for and individuals' activity for a given date range [not sure how far back the history goes: Perhaps someone else here knows?] The reports do need some interpretation but it is the only solution we have and it has been called upon a couple of times since being deployed here.

 

Might be worth looking at or it might be worth investigating if your LEA offerers an equivalent product.

[Davit2005]

Which LEA are you with? I ask because we recently moved over to HGfL's filtering integrated with Active Directory. Using this we can filter pages locally and generate reports about Internet usage. We can get reports for and individuals' activity for a given date range [not sure how far back the history goes: Perhaps someone else here knows?] The reports do need some interpretation but it is the only solution we have and it has been called upon a couple of times since being deployed here.

 

Might be worth looking at or it might be worth investigating if your LEA offerers an equivalent product.

 

Not with LEA solution (positives/negatives) :-?

[6Foot2]

Not with LEA solution (positives/negatives) :-?

 

Negatives [comparing our situation with yours]

 

• Our solution is free [or more accurately comes with the support we are already buying from our LEA]
  
• Can't think of any more negatives at the moment
  

 

Positives:

 

• Obtaining a commercially produced solution allows you to choose what features you have/don't have
  
• I would expect a paid for solution to have a better interface, work better [have a better success rate when blocking pages] and have better reports than we have.