Archive for the ‘utilities’ Category

VNC software for remote access

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Sometimes it becomes essential that the developers connect to the client’s system to better see issues reported by clients.
For this Sapnagroup uses VNC (Virtual Network Computing). Here the client downloads the utility from our server and runs it. This will try to connect to the developers system and give him access to the clients desktop. This is absolutely safe as only when the client runs the utility then the developer gets access to the clients system and not otherwise. Also this does not install or does any changes to the clients system.
To run VNC and request remote support please follow these instructions

  1. Get in touch with the developer either via email or instant messenger and fix up time for the VNC session.
  2. Download the utility from http://www.sapnagroup.net/services/vnc.exe and run it.
  3. On the left you will see a list of developers. Double click on the name of the developer with whom you need to share the desktop.
  4. To terminate the session, just close the utility from the tray by right clicking on the VNC icon and selecting “Close Daemon”

Encrypted information exchange

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Use this to pass sensitive information to others. It’s not a replacement for other encryption tools like PGP etc, which are better and should definately be used if possible. But if that’s difficult, use “Encrypted Transfer” rather then using plain text to send your information.

https://www.encryptedtransfer.com/

robots.txt

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

If you need to disallow search engine spiders to crawl certain folders, create a robots.txt file at http://robots.sapnagroup.net/ and then upload it to your web root.

Find your ip

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Need to check what your ip is to the ourside world? We have a quick tool just for that http://myip.sapnagroup.net/

.htaccess/.htpasswd file generator

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

This tool will help you generate .htaccess file which defines authentication configuration and .htpasswd file which stores the usernames and password. Passwords are stored in crypt format.

http://htaccess.sapnagroup.net/