Yes, I agree and on a LAN, that's a great administration tactic. It becomes a problem over a WAN or across firewalls, though. It's very insecure to allow remote registry outside of your firewall because the communication is not encrypted and open to all sorts of attacks.
The new service in VNCScan allows you to do administrative tasks like this across firewalls in a much more secure fashion because only one port needs to be opened and all traffic is encrypted. Viewing remotely installed programs will definitely make it's way into the list of things that you can do out of the box, soon ... :) - Steve Bostedor http://www.vncscan.com -----Original Message----- From: 0067881-0005 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 5:22 PM To: Steve Bostedor; Jerry Westrick; vnc-list@realvnc.com Subject: Re: Can VNC Do This? Steve, You can use Remote Registry service (available in Windows NT, 2000 and XP for sure, maybe others) and connect to the remote computer's registry, then drill down to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall to see the list of installed programs, similar to those listed in Add/Remove Programs to gain the information you need. The Remote Registry service needs to be started on both client and server to make this connection to the registry. The logged in user will not see what you are seeing when you connect this way. This won't get you anything else you may have been looking for though. Hope this helps! Kent ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Bostedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jerry Westrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <vnc-list@realvnc.com> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:56 PM Subject: RE: Can VNC Do This? > Something like this is one of the new features that where written into > the new version of VNCScan. It would be tuff to open the add/remove > programs on the remote computer, but it wouldn't be very hard to get the > list of installed programs on that computer and present you with a list. > > > The feature that makes things like this possible is the new VNCScan > Service that you can push out to the remote desktops and perform > Administrative functions with. Communications are secured with a > private key and reasonable encryption. Some of the things that you'll > be able to do with the first version of the service include executing a > command script on the remote computer, finding who is logged into a > computer, rebooting it, and setting the various settings of the remote > VNC server. (much more, too) > > If you're good at writing your own WSH scripts or if you have 3rd party > programs that accept command line parameters, you'll be able to add > custom commands to the right-click menu and those menu items will launch > whatever program or script you specify and pass it the selected computer > address by replacing the %host% variable. > > For example, if you have a program named wakeup.exe that will wake up a > computer on the LAN if you issue a command: WAKEUP.EXE > /COMPUTER:SLEEPINGCOMPUTER.DOMAIN.COM, you can make the new menu command > in VNCScan say, 'C:\WAKEUP.EXE /COMPUTER:%HOST% and VNCScan will replace > the %HOST% with the name of the selected computer and launch the > command. Is this cool or what?! Thank you to Eric Chapuis for the > suggestion on this. > > All of this functionality is already completed and in beta testing. If > you'd like to beta test this new version, just email me and let me know. > Please give me a rudimentary description of your environment, too. > Nothing too specific; just the OS versions and how many computer and > such. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jerry Westrick > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:04 PM > To: vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Re: Can VNC Do This? > > On Thursday 27 January 2005 17:47, ANDREW WRIGHT wrote: > > I want to use VNC for some remote administration at work. But I don't > > want to connect to the desktop. I want to just open the GUI for a > > specific application from a remote computer on my computer. For > > example, suppose I have a computer named remote1. I want to open the > > Add/Remove Programs GUI from remote1 on my desktop. That way I can see > > > what programs remote1 has installed. I don't want to connect to the > > desktop. If I could only open the GUI to a program, it wouldn't bother > the user and they could keep working. > > > Nope, only the GUI would be running on the Screen of the user... > > > > > Can VNC do this? If not, does anyone know of something that will? > > > > VNC can, but windows cannot. > > > Thanks! > > No Prbm Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > _______________________________________________ > VNC-List mailing list > VNC-List@realvnc.com > To remove yourself from the list visit: > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
