rich835 Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Looking for a bit of advice on Remote Desktop on Win2k3. We're considering using it to allow customers to run the Halo2 admin utility (h2admin.exe) as Halo2 has no rcon support, so the only way to admin a Halo2 Server is with this command line utility which can only be run directly on the server hosting the game. We've never allowed customers to use remote desktop to our servers before and we're a bit cautious about doing it. Just wondered if anyone has any experience of this and if it can be done without too much concern, bearing in mind that the servers run multiple games and other customers will be have different games running on these machines as well. Any advice much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ECF Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 Set it up as a secondary application in TCAdmin. I would not trust people with RDP, but that is just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnp Posted August 16, 2007 Share Posted August 16, 2007 I wouldn't suggest it either, I have seen some 'streaming command line' java apps that might work for you, and be a bit safer. Would just need to install a webserver on the machine, which opens up risk aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich835 Posted August 17, 2007 Author Share Posted August 17, 2007 How would the secondary app work then? Would it pop up in like a command prompt style window when the customer ran it from tcadmin, a bit like the punkbuster update does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monk Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I always set the encryption up to the highest if I have to use RDP. RDP is evil by nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{-SMAKU-}_MotorMouth Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I have found that Radmin is great for remote desktop access. The server side is $49.99. The client side is free. You can have as many on at a time as you need. Everything can be done in the same window. http://www.famatech.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mafia2k5 Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 it should be much safer with win 2008 server!!!! and on top of that you can now create user access to certain apps only! so if per exemple you have a customer who needs the halo2 admin utility you just give him permissions to this and create him a username and password but thats on 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamnp Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 2008 has many awesome features Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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