Fasckira

Needs more swooshy 3d scenes but aside from that its not a bad way to spend 90 minutes, cheers for the share.

Theres more than likely a better solution out there but off the top of my mind I'd say something like Nagios. You can set up agents on each machine and have Nagios monitor the bandwidth with a plugin on each machine and the router and give you all the info in a handy view. Plus you also get the benefit of using Nagios to monitor the network for other issues (like monitor your servers services and log sizes and so on). Nagios: http://www.nagios.org/

Whats your network layout?

Anything in particular you're wanting to protect or just casual interest?

Seconded. Forced to decide between the two though... probably Quake 4. Doom 3 is nice and atmospheric but theres nothing that stands it out from the crowd. Then again however the same can be said for Q4 but at least the pace is a tad faster. I'd take Q3 over Q4 tbh.

Oh, and LogMeIn/VNC/Dameware doesnt require end-user approval either but does require initial access to the machine to install the applications (though I think you can remote install on Dameware if you have admin rights?)

Problem with DameWare and Logmein out the box is that when you connect to a target machine it gives a prompt telling the user generally something like "<computername> is monitoring this session".

If its really your computer then theres no need to have a script to create the user is there? Just create it before you go. If you're concerned hes using it while you're gone then just tie it down to one user with a password. Not so sure about this though because you start off saying you mess with each other's PCs but then by the end of the post you're implying that its your PC. Hmm. :P PsExec is probably your best option, what part are you having trouble with in setting it up? Also, I dont think FreeVNC notifies the target computer when a connection is made but its been awhile since I used that. I think LogMeIn has the option to disable notification viewing prompts after installation but again, not sure. Also if you're accessing it across the internet you'll need to make sure you can see the VNC port (if thats the route you go down) externally and make sure you either know the IP (if its static) or set up one of those dyndns-free addresses if its not. PsExec: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553 RealVNC: http://www.realvnc.com/index.html DynDNS-Free: http://dyn.com/dns/dyndns-free/

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