Secondary logon possible ?

[Frank Ball]

Hi,

we hav the following network :
Server Win2K Server
WS : Win2K
Admin :WinXP Sp2
Server and all WS have all updates installed

We have very strict GPOs working
All runs smoothly.

Just from time to time it would be helpful for me to logon to another ws
in the background to change or check settings.

If I use vnc or pcanywhere, the user must stop his work, I must logon,
perform the changes etc. and logoff again.

Is there a software, that would allow me to logon in the background as a
second user on the workstation with the user continuing this work in the
foreground ?

Any hints would be appreciated.


Best regards
Frank

 

[Steven L Umbach]

If the Workstations were XP Pro Remote Assistance might be able to do much
of what you want. With what you have now you can connect the other computer
from your computer using Computer Management/action - connect to another
computer to check a lot of things. There is a also a free tool from
SysInternals called psexec that allows you to access the command prompt of a
remote computer assuming you are an administrator on the remote computer.
There may be other Remote Control programs that may be able to do what you
want but offhand I am not familiar with one though the non free versions
probably have more capabilities. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/utilities/psexec.html --- psexec

 

[Frank Ball]

Hi Stephen,

It doesn't matter if the software is not free. I have tried psexe and,
of course, I know computer management with mmc, but all these solutions
are not what I am looking for. Perfect would be a graphical login the
other machine.

Thanks anyway.
Frank

 

[Mike Fields]

Depending on what you are trying to do, telnet may
be all that you need (in fact, you can configure a
HyperTerminal session to use TCP/IP and get/out
quickly assuming the permissions allow it.)

mikey