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Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops
From: Cal Frye <cjf () CALFRYE COM>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:55:10 -0500
Tim Lane wrote:
We are receiving an increasing number of requests from staff to remotely access their desktops, for a variety of reasons.
Hi, Tim, We tend to disallow this access, if for no better reason that everyone runs DHCP here and finding the endpoint could be tricky... I take such requests as a sign we're not providing sufficient resources in central IT to meet the need. They should be able to obtain access to the data, documents, etc they need securely but without requiring the desktop. Anything that critical should be on my servers somewhere where we can watch it, back it up, provide UPS, etc. -- Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species. -- Cal Frye, Network Administrator, Oberlin College Mudd Library, x.56930 -- CIT will NEVER ask you for your password! www.calfrye.com, www.pitalabs.com "News is what somebody somewhere doesn't want you to know. Everything else is just publicity." -- Lord North.
Current thread:
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops, (continued)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Gary Flynn (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops HALL, NATHANIEL D. (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Mark Monroe (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Robin Polak (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Bristol, Gary L. (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Brawner, David (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops David Grisham (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Justin Dover (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Consolvo, Corbett D (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops John Ladwig (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Cal Frye (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Emilio Valente (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Hugh Burley (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Anthony Maszeroski (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Greg Francis (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Stanclift, Michael (Feb 18)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Valdis Kletnieks (Feb 19)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Dexter Caldwell (Feb 20)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Himes, Daniel (Feb 20)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Hammond, Stanley (Feb 20)
- Re: Remote Access to Staff Desktops Scott Dier (Feb 20)
(Thread continues...)