Originally Posted By: wfaulk

...preamble...Anyway, here's what I have so far:

UltraVNC


We used UltraVNC in my last shop and found it to be the most Windows-capable of VNC packages. Used it over SSH

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I'm also considering WPKG. Anyone have any thoughts on that, or another remote package installer?

We've used WPKG since 2004 and it is huge bang for (zero) buck. Relatively easy to maintain XML configs. Lots of on-line examples for silent installers. We even use it to config laptops now. For true lights-out operation we needed to add a dummy wpkg user on each machine, but that was worth it and better than some of the alternatives. All hail WPKG.

(The hard part is dealing with some brain-dead Windows installers but again there are hundreds of pre-supplied examples on the wpkg.org site.)

We looked at Dameware back in 2004 but they were going through a bad patch with some exploits and there were exploits *using* the dameware engine. Seems like that has settled down.
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