Topic: taking control with pcanywhere

[Duncan]

I use port forwarding to serve up pages from my e-smith machine through an ipcop firewall and vpns to administer my clients machines. Although i have used VNC i have never had any experience using pcAnywhere.

Although it sounds like it has a good security built in to it, i guess i would be concerned that if someone gained access to the workstation they have access to the LAN and perhaps more importantly the Server (just open a browser and use that wonderful microsoft save username and password "feature"). Without knowing the product, is their any way of confining pcAnywhere to the workstation?

I know that this is a fairly obscure scenario (especially if one maintains good security practices) but i am just throwing out a what if question.

Regards Duncan.

[tibor]

We are using Remote Administrator (www.radmin.com) utilizing the portforwarding panel. It works very well, good performance, allows for remote control, viewing, file transfer, reboot/shutdown.

[Jeremy]

How do you use the port forwarding feature when you have multiple machines running pcanywhere?

[Tom Keiser]

In later versions of Pcanywhere, the ports used are settable by the client on a per-host basis. Thus, your connection to host #1 might use the standard ports 5631 and 5632, and your connection to host#2 might use ports 5650 and 5651, for example. Port forward these port pairs to two different internal lan ip addresses and you have a connection to two different boxes - simultaneously.

Jeremy wrote:
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> How do you use the port forwarding feature when you have
> multiple machines running pcanywhere?