[Gllug] OT: Windows network auditing software

[Formi]

 There is rdesktop,

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows NT Terminal Server and
Windows 2000 Terminal Services capable of speaking Remote Desktop
Protocol, in order to present the user NT desktop, no server extensions
required, works on X.

rdesktop.sourceforge.net



Formi
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Edwards wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 12:44:03PM -0000, Neil Fryer wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I need to audit our LAN, and I need some software that is free to do it, any
> > recomendations? Basically I just need to see who's got what installed on
> > their PC's?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Regards
> > Neil Fryer
>
> I've not meet any free tools that do this, just plenty of commercial ones.
>
> A quick and easy way would be to connect to each machine's registry and
> have a look at the keys in the Uninstall section:
>   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
>
> This is the list that is shown in the Add/Remove Program control panel.
>
> Of course this won't cover older DOS or Win16 programs, those with
> badly written installers, and most viruses and trojans.
>
> For NT/2000/XP machines you may even be able to automate some of this
> with the Win32 API in a C, Perl or Python program.
>
>
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