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I am also testing this product out after seeing it in Windows ITPRO mag. I have installed it on my workstation with SQL 2005 and XP's IIS and it loads fine. For those who cannot login to the console you need to change the servername to your machine that houses the product and the username needs to be either the NT name you are logged in as or, as in my case the SA username and password. I have also set the LANSweeper service to run under a domain admin account on my machine. Now that it is iunstalled, how do i get it to proactively go out and do its work, a la Spiceworks? Is there a user guide somewhere? I do not want to have to use a login script to run this. Thanks.
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Quote:how do i get it to proactively go out and do its work It does not do this by design. In an "average" network a lot of windows XP machines are firewalled, misconfigured, ... With lsclient in a loginscript you can find all these machines (even the firewalled ones) and know which ones are not properly configured. (even if they only come to the network once a month) Actively scanning is intrusive and misses all devices turned off or firewalled at the moment of scanning.
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Lansweeper wrote:Quote:how do i get it to proactively go out and do its work It does not do this by design. In an "average" network a lot of windows XP machines are firewalled, misconfigured, ... With lsclient in a loginscript you can find all these machines (even the firewalled ones) and know which ones are not properly configured. (even if they only come to the network once a month) Actively scanning is intrusive and misses all devices turned off or firewalled at the moment of scanning. And active scanning *finds* "forgotten" machines that no one has logged into for a while. An option for both is ideal. If I want to scan 4,000 machines over a weekend for a new client -- I really don't want to have to log all of them in. I want to active scan.
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I also like the Active Scan feature. I may use my site to site VPN to scan a remote subnet and cannot run the client unless it points through the VPN to my server. Most of the end users do not know about the VPN and I also block ports through the VPN. I use Spiceworks but you need to have it at multiple clients and currently, the databases are separate. I actually use it on my laptop to go into a new client, run a quick scan and then create a spreadsheet. I like the way Lansweeper looks and feels on the web page and would love to use it. I do use WSH scripts as login scripts to push printers, etc. as well as qchaining and other things. I would rather not have to add yet another util to a login script.
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I'll move this to the wishlist
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