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:
“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)
“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major—perhaps the major—stake in the worldwide competition for power. It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”
—Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)