Sunbelt Remote Administrator - (Radmin)

Sunbelt Radmin is a superfast, award winning remote control program. You can take over one or more remote PCs or Servers, and even daisy chain them!
Radmin is a complete remote control tool especially designed for busy system administrators. The truly crucial features are all there: superfast remote control, file transfer, NT security, telnet and Multilanguage support. Radmin has a very small, tight footprint and is blisteringly fast

Operating Environments

One of important advantages of Remote Administrator is its easy interface. It is devoid of all 'value added' features that are not needed but make it harder to work with the product and slow down the speed. Remote Administrator has been developed to satisfy three main corporate requirements for remote control software:

Corporate Help Desk: Radmin lets helpdesk staff troubleshoot problems without having to run all over the building. Helpdesk staff need strong remote-control performance plus features such as tools for pushing the host software down to client PCs for easy installation, and the ability to launch the host module remotely.
System Administrator tool: Radmin makes it easy really for you to get started. Using Radmin, you can monitor servers and correct problems at any time of the day from any location. Capability to monitor multiple hosts at the same time at a high speed also is very helpful. Radmin allows you to transfer files at a blistering speed with an easy to use interface. Radmin's features give you a high level of mobility, independence and control. It's as if you are there.
Customer Service: If a customer encounters a problem, a support technician can take over the system and resolve the problem without having to ship the PC back and forth. This tool is very helpful if you are a vendor of either hardware or software. The increasing complexity of computer software and hardware make it almost impossible to solve problems through verbal interaction between the user and the technician. In this case customers can save their money as well as technicians can reduce costs for support.

Using Radmin

You see the remote computer screen displayed either in a window or full screen on your computer monitor. All the mouse and keyboard functions are transferred from the remote computer to your own machine. You can work with the remote computer as if you are sitting in front of it. According to our tests and our users feedback, Radmin outperforms all other remote control tools in sheer speed.

The remote computer can be located anywhere on the Internet or local area network. When using Radmin, you don't need a fast network connection to work with the remote computer. Even if you are just connected via Modem, you can reach a reasonable screen update speed (about 5-10 screen updates per second). If you are connected to a LAN you can reach real-time update speeds of about 100 - 500 screen updates per second. You can adjust that down to save bandwidth though.

Security and reliability

Radmin is easy to use and provides robust 128bit strong encryption of all its data streams. The software is based on the TCP/IP protocol which is by now the most widespread protocol in WANs and LANs. All you need to control a computer located in any place on the planet is a TCP/IP connection between these two boxes. When in the "Full control" mode you can do on the remote computer what you like - transfer files to and fro, shutdown or logoff -- if you have sufficient permissions. Radmin is a very SECURE and RELIABLE remote control tool. It is stable and reliable so you can use it for mission critical network management.

A lot of attention was paid to security questions in the Radmin design. Here are some reasons why your Radmin operations are completely secure:

Radmin 2.1 supports Windows NT/2000 user level security. You can give remote control rights to a specific user or group of users.
If the Windows NT security support is switched off, access to the remote computer is controlled by a password. Remote Administrator uses a challenge-response password authentication method. This method is similar to the authentication method used in Windows NT, but uses larger security keys in the protocol.
Remote Administrator works in high security mode, where all data (screen images, mouse movement and keys) are encrypted. It uses 128bit strong encryption with randomly generated keys. For remote control connections encryption is optional while all other connection modes (file transfer, telnet, etc) are encrypted by default.
Remote Administrator server has a logging feature. All actions are written to the log file. Event log support is included in the version 2.1.
Remote Administrator server has a IP-filter table. If you use this you can get Radmin server access only from the specified IP addresses and networks.
Remote Administrator has a self testing code defense, which protects its code from changing.
All crypto algorithms used in Remote Administrator are industry standards: RSA, MD5, TwoFish.

Radmin Features

Runs as a service. Radmin server can work as a SERVICE under WinNT and Win9X, which allows you to logon and logoff a user remotely. ·
Multiple connections support ·
Radmin server supports multiple remote control and view sessions to one screen. ·
Full-screen, scaling and windowed view modes. Full-screen mode allows you to see the remote screen on the entire screen of your display. Scaling mode allows you to see the scaled remote screen in a window with the user defined size. ·
Radmin uses a video hook kernel mode driver under Windows NT 4.0 to improve the performance. This allows you to work on the remote computer with an incredible 'real-time' update speed (hundreds of screen updates per second). Radmin works on both NT and W2K. ·
File transfer allows you to transfer files to or from the remote computer. Works with easy-to-use interface similar to Windows Explorer.
o Drag-and-Drop support
o File Transfer resuming after abnormal disconnection
o Progress bar o Show date, time, attributes in detailed view of File Transfer
o Sorting files support o "Replace File" confirmation dialog
o Disk names support o Icons support
o Saving of File Transfer window size and position, view and sorting modes
o File properties dialog ·
Remote shutdown feature
Allows you to shutdown the computer remotely without connecting in remote screen mode. ·
Telnet server
Radmin server provides Telnet access to the remote computer, when its server runs on Windows NT. ·
Multilanguage support
We have included the support for quite a few languages. You have to copy just one file to use this feature, it is not necessary to download and install Radmin again. ·
Windows NT security support.
You can give the right to remote control, remote view, telnet and file transfer access to specific users or user groups. If the user is logged on to a WinNT domain, the Radmin viewer will use the current username / password in order to connect to the Radmin server. ·
Password protection
If Windows NT security support is switched off, access to a remote computer is controlled by a password. Radmin uses a challenge- response password authentication method, based on 128bit strong encryption. ·
All data is encrypted with 128 bit strong crypto in any connection mode. ·
Event Log support. ·
IP filter - This feature allows access to the Radmin server only from specified IP addresses and subnets. ·
Radmin supports Hi-resolution modes. Radmin supports display resolutions up to 2048 X 2048 X 32bit color. ·
Clipboard transfers. ·
Remote shutdown feature. ·
16 color (4bit per pixel) network transfer mode. ·
"/stop" command - kills all running Radmin servers on the computer ·
Optional 'Incoming connection' dialog box on server side. ·
Optional Tray icon on server side with computer IP address tip and current connection list. Tray icon changes its state when some active connection persist. Also a notification beep is made when some user connects to the server. ·
Close connection dialog in viewer. ·
Sending Ctrl-Alt-Del to the remote computer. ·
Reduced network usage in the minimized mode of the viewer's remote screen window. ·
Auto disconnection of frozen remote screen connections. ·
Extended "Ask user to allow incoming connection" options. In earlier versions the default answer for incoming connection. was "yes". Since v2.1 you have the opportunity to choose "no" as the default. Optional "time out" value. ·
Powerful registry settings for system administrators - you can disable several server functions such as telnet, file transfer, control, and the possibility of changing server settings by a user.