This week I was selected for a new mission: help somebody with his Windows administration. The first I thought was using a VNC server and connect to it from my comfortable home.

1st Round

Well, using VNC with spanish Internet connections is an utopia: It was so slow that I couldn’t do anything.

2nd Round

The next I thought was using Microsoft’s remote admin tool. It worked! And it was really simple in a few steps:

  • Activate Remote Admin from your Windows Settings. In my case: My Computer propierties, in the advanced tab.
  • Create an administrator account, protected by password (unless you protect it with a password, you couldn’t do anything).
  • Download Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (for Windows or Mac), and install it on the client machine.
  • The only thing you’ll need to access to the server machine, is the username credentials and the public IP.

Personnally I prefered to set up a DynDNS account, because I didn´t want to look for the public IP each time ;)

What I want to do now is to admin a Windows or Mac machine from GNU/Linux and vice versa :D