[thelist] Taking control of a client's computer

Ken Schaefer ken.schaefer at gmail.com
Thu Jul 29 01:15:52 CDT 2004


On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:47:20 -0500, Shawn K. Quinn
<skquinn at xevious.kicks-ass.net> wrote:
> On 2004 July 26, Monday 08:31, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
> > It occurred to me that it would be nice if there was a way I could
> > take over their machine for a short while to make the required
> > changes myself rather than trying to remember what Outlook looks
> > like. I know that type of software's out there. Hopefully it'll be an
> > 'over the Internet' type of thing rather than using direct dial.
> 
> This is usually trivial on Unix-type systems as soon as you have the
> appropriate credentials to become root, as it's simply a matter of ssh
> and su or sudo (depending on setup); unfortunately, to do this on
> Windows requires installation of a remote access product of some type
> (through 2000 anyway; XP or whatever the latest "version number" is may
> have added something different but it's doubtful).
> 
> Shawn K. Quinn

Shawn,

If you'd been following the thread you'd have seen that XP comes with
Remote Desktop. XP's been out for ~3 years now.

Cheers
Ken


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