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:
“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!—subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“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)