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by kingofthenerds

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Hi All,

I really need some good PC control software that allows the following:

Remote control of a PC
Remote Observation of a PC
Remote copying of files to a PC
Remote Lock Screen for PC

This must be available for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP.

I have looked at Networx Manager and although it is on the right track, i looks a little buggy and kids can get around screen lock by restarting their machine.

My price range is up to $1000 australian dollars for a site license or at least access to 100 PC's.

Thanks Alot and remember that the price can't go over this.

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by black panther

I am not sure of the price but we use Altiris
which can the the above plus a lot more.
We have 120 PC's.

www.altris.com.au

Altiris Contact Offices > Australia North

Altiris Australia Pty Ltd
Level 13, NCR House, 8-20 Napier Street
North Sydney NSW 2060 Australia

Australia North includes NSW, ACT, QLD, NT and WA. To contact the Altiris Australia South / New Zealand Office click here.

by jireland607

Don't know if it is up to your expectations but we use a great little remote control utility called Real VNC. It is a free download at http://www.realvnc.com/ It runs as client/server and allows full control of the remote pc.

James

by edlockett

I agree with above. Have been using RealVNC for remote control over LAN and WAN for many years. Is open-source and therfore free. Features are very good, however it does not have file transfer functionality.
If on a LAN or have VPN, use windows file sharing.
If over WAN then set up something like FTP.
Hope this helps.
Ed

by rindi1

If you need a commercial program I suggest PCAnywhere from Symantec. This is easy to use and you can do everything with it. I'm not sure of the pricing, however.
Otherwise as already mentioned above RealVNC or TightVNC are good free options and work on non M$ Plattforms as well (Linux), although as mentioned already they don't support file Transfer, but for that you can use other free FTP Tools or use Windows Shares.

by drsysadmin

One note - getting anyone that you lock the machine on that has physical access to the machine, and a valid user account, will be able to "get around" the lockout option. The way to disable this is to limit the timeframe and time limit an account can log into the machine. This will only work for the non-w9x series of OS's. And the machine must be on a domain.

Anyone can unplug the machine and then reboot - regardless of software.... Something to remember.

Luck,
Dr. Sys

by choppit

I'd certainly look at one of the VNC variants. Consider TightVNC http://www.tightvnc.com/ which has recently added support for file transfers. If you're not too worried about file transfer I'd recommend RealVNC.

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