Remote access may refer to:
- Connection to a data-processing system from a remote location, for example through a virtual private network
- Remote desktop software, refers to a software or an OS feature allowing applications to be run remotely on a server while being graphically displayed locally
- Terminal emulation - when used to interface with a remote system. May use standard tools like:
- Telnet, software used to remotely control a computer system
ssh, secure shell often used with remote applications
- Activation of features of a business telephone system from outside the business's premises
- RemoteAccess, a DOS-based bulletin board system
- Remote Database Access, a protocol standard for database access
Famous quotes containing the words remote and/or access:
“All our civilization had meant nothing. The same culture that had nurtured the kindly enlightened people among whom I had been brought up, carried around with it war. Why should I not have known this? I did know it, but I did not believe it. I believed it as we believe we are going to die. Something that is to happen in some remote time.”
—Mary Heaton Vorse (1874–1966)
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—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)