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Recently, someone in my family was not able to get into their home PC with their password, and called for assistance. This means having to drive down to the machine to see what they are doing, and log in with the appropriate account that can reset that password. Work commitments preclude driving there right away to see what is happening, and I am trying to locate a remote access solution. If they were logged into the machine, I could use some sort of remote assistance tool, but that is not an option in this case. There is the possibility of setting up SSH or OpenVPN to access the machine via the Internet, but I am not certain leaving those tools running all the time is the smartest idea in this day and age.
What recommendations do the Soylent community have for securely managing a machine over the Internet when someone is not logged into it?
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:31PM
Hey wait a minute! Auntie is pulling your leg; the PCI version of the venerable 3c509 family of 3Com cards never received 64 bit OSsupport!
(Nor did the ISA card, which I expect she had working just fine in her windows 98 desktop until she upgraded...maybe it's a 'dual personality' slot that shares IRQs and DMA access for ISA 16-bit and PCI 32 bit slot resources?)
And if you are trying to get the PCMCIA 10mb 3c50x cardbus dongley appendage to work for Auntie, make sure you use the original dongle cable because its wired for 10mb only due to missing about, oh, everything except for tx, rx, and ground...cat5 might work as long as you didn't plug the cable in fully). Still, thats way more than enough to connect in at 300bps over a shared dialup connection. Just make sure NETBeui is enabled so the mainframe printer was reachable it if wasn't IP enabled and you ran DLSW+ over a virtual token ring bridge to ethernet over dialup.
Of course, if she was calling about the lp0 on fire message on her teletype, but had to hang up to call you but without logging out first, adoption may not even be necessary if you wait long enough for the automatic and continuous-feed combustable paper feeder to burn to its inevitable conclusion. I think that was the second leading cause of death when playing Zork without a CRT and relying on an echo of the line feed being routed to lp0.