3 Questions About Server 08

[vinny8978]

1: how can i set up my server so i can login in to it from my mates house?, I know its possible as I helped set it up for a client, but I cannot remember what we did :S

2: how can my roaming profiles pull programs from the server? is this possible?

3: how can i display the logged in users name, the computer name and the ip address in the bottom corner of the desktop? and it it possible to do this with a batch file?

thanks in advance for any help i get

Vinny

 

[mmthomas]

1: how can i set up my server so i can login in to it from my mates house?, I know its possible as I helped set it up for a client, but I cannot remember what we did :S

You can use remote desktop to login remotely to your server. If you have a firewall/router, you need to be able to forward TCP port 3389 traffic from your public IP address to your internal server address. If your server is directly connected to your internet connection, you need to open that firewall port on the server.

2: how can my roaming profiles pull programs from the server? is this possible?

If you have setup your server as a domain controller, you can use group policy to assign software and have it installed to a computer when the user logs on. Not every program can be installed this way and you still need to be aware of licensing.

3: how can i display the logged in users name, the computer name and the ip address in the bottom corner of the desktop? and it it possible to do this with a batch file?

You can useBGinfo for this. By default it includes a lot more info, but you can remove the stuff you don't want.

 

[vinny8978]

OH WOW, Thank you sooo much Matt
Im glad all my questions are possible
and thankyou again for answering all of them