Remote Access

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:

    “Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
    —Fred, Sir Hoyle (b. 1915)

    “The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total.
    Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
    All information should be free.
    Mistrust authority—promote decentralization.
    Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
    You can create art and beauty on a computer.
    Computers can change your life for the better.”
    —Steven Levy, U.S. writer. Hackers, ch. 2, “The Hacker Ethic,” pp. 27-33, Anchor Press, Doubleday (1984)