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In what circumstances would you setup a VPN instead of just allowing Remote Desktop to a machine in a network?
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We would like to detect what devices & what programs users are using to connect to the Windows 2008 R2 Remote Desktop. In particular, we would like to have an ability to detect the remote devices such as iPads, iPhones & Androids, identify the software used and allow these connections only…
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When I reboot a Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server via a Remote Desktop connection, the server comes back up and will not accept any RDP connections: the RDP client errors out with "Connection Refused."
The Terminal Services service is running on the server and restarting it has no effect. No errors…
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Here is the Problem: I have two computers connected in the same LAN.
I am trying to access one computer from another using Remote Desktop Viewer, I am able to see the remote desktop.
But when i click on any thing or perform any action, I dont see the result but the action is performed on the remote…
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Sometime ago, I used carbon copy as I was replacing my hard drive in my Mac Mini running Snow Leopard. Afterwards, on my new drive I had some permission problems.
I've tried several times running a repair permissions / repair disk from disk util. It shows that there are problems and I think it says…
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iPads and Android tablets can’t run Windows apps locally, but they can access a Windows desktops remotely — even with a physical keyboard. In a pinch, the same tricks can be used to access a Windows desktop from a smartphone. Microsoft recently launched their own official Remote Desktop…
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I have a problem with setup VPN server on my Ubuntu VPS, here is my server environments:
Ubuntu Server 12.04 x86_64
xl2tpd 1.3.1+dfsg-1
pppd 2.4.5-5ubuntu1
openswan 1:2.6.38-1~precise1
After install software and configuration:
ipsec verify
Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and…
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I have a problem with setup VPN server on my Ubuntu VPS, here is my server environments:
Ubuntu Server 12.04 x86_64
xl2tpd 1.3.1+dfsg-1
pppd 2.4.5-5ubuntu1
openswan 1:2.6.38-1~precise1
After install software and configuration:
ipsec verify
Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and…
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i am trying to get ipsec/l2tp running on a debian server with an iphone as a client but always get:
Dec 2 21:00:04 vpn pluto[22711]: packet from <clientip>:43598: received Vendor ID payload [RFC 3947] method set to=115
Dec 2 21:00:04 vpn pluto[22711]: packet from <clientip>:43598: received…
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I have a problem with setup VPN server on my Ubuntu VPS, here is my server environments:
Ubuntu Server 12.04 x86_64
xl2tpd 1.3.1+dfsg-1
pppd 2.4.5-5ubuntu1
openswan 1:2.6.38-1~precise1
After install software and configuration:
ipsec verify
Checking your system to see if IPsec got installed and…
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EDIT: We connected an air card to the computer to use a different Internet connection and using the Cisco software, we were able to successfully connect to our VPN server. I just don't understand why the ShrewSoft VPN client would connect but the Cisco connection won't.
I'm not our network admin…
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