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Grouping physical computers into labs

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 22, 2021 3:38:26 pm EST
Hello Nhlanhla,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify if by "group into labs" you mean grouping connections in the address book to folders? If this is the case, please note that you can create folders in the Navigation pane on the left side of the main Viewer window. In order to create a folder simply right-click with the mouse cursor hovered over the Navigation pane and sel ect Add folder. When you have created folders, you can simply drag and drop connections fr om the Contents pane on the right to the preferred folders on the left.

and an indication on wether a remote computer is in use by a student /Lecturer

Unfortunately, this feature is not available in Remote Utilities yet. However, we already have it in our wishlist, so it definitely will be implemented in one of our future updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hope that helps.

"File Transfer" tab missing - Macbook Air

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 22, 2021 1:12:47 pm EST
Hello Xinyao,

Thank you for your message.

Unfortunately, the File Transfer connection mode is not available in Viewer for Mac/Linux yet since it's still in the beta stages. Currently, the only connection methods available for Mac/Linux users are Full Control and View Only.

However, the File Transfer connection mode as well as other connection modes will be implemented to Viewer for Mac/Linux at the subsequent beta stages or the final release. You can find the full list of features that are already available in Viewer for Mac/Linux on this page (please see the very first message in the thread). Sorry if this makes our software less useful for you.

Please let us know if you have more questions.

Host showing as offline even though the host computer is running

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 22, 2021 11:34:14 am EST
Hello Everyone

Alain, please note that we've responded to your message in another thread to avoid duplication.

Peter and Dept IT, could you please let us know if you're still experiencing the issue? We've received some similar reports and have restarted our severs just in case (even though there was no recent downtimes), so in most cases the access to the remote Hosts is now working.

Same IP is listed on this website: https://threatfox.abuse.ch/ioc/259582/
May be a listing that needs to be disputed, @remoteutilities?

Thank you for letting us know. We will definitely report this as a False Positive, so, hopefully, this entry will be removed soon.
As for the firewall block - please try adding the DNS name id.remoteutilities.com to the exceptions/allow list, so that the access to our intermediary servers is not blocked.

Please let us know if you have more questions.

Remote Server access gone

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 22, 2021 11:24:31 am EST
Hello Alain,

Thank you for the clarification.

In this case, could you please send us the latest Host log files for examination (i.e. one of the Hosts that you connect to via your custom RU Server)? You can locate them in the following folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remote Utilities - Host\Logs\.
You can send the log files to support@remoteutilities.com or create a ticket in the Ticket System and attach the logs to the ticket.

Looking forward to your reply.

Remote Server access gone

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 22, 2021 11:17:20 am EST
Hello Alain,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify if your RU Server is updated to the latest version 3.1 as well? In case if it's not updated to the latest version yet please try updating it as well, so that your Host, Viewer and RU Server versions all match since some new additions were implemented to the RU Server in the latest update as well.
The latest version of RU Server 3.1 is available for download on this page.

Please let us know if the issue persists after updating RU Server as well.

You computer has been connected in a remote session...

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 21, 2021 4:05:47 pm EST
Hello Peter,

Thank you for your message.

How do I remove it since it is a legitimate connection ? This message assumes unauthorized access.

This connection alert is persistent and cannot be removed. The notification was added for security reasons and is shown for all trial and free license users. Sorry if this makes our software less useful for you.

By the way the grammar is wrong as well ... it should be " Your computer..." not "You computer..."

Thank you for the feedback. We'll make sure to correct this typo as soon as possible.

Please let us know if you have other questions.

Slow connection on LAN, but faast via internet

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 21, 2021 3:09:12 pm EST
Hello Andreas,

Thank you for the clarification.

Could you please send us the Host log files for examination? You can locate the logs in the following folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Remote Utilities - Host\Logs\.
Please send the log files to support@remoteutilities.com and do not publish them on the forum as they might contain personal information.

Looking forward to your reply.

Does Remote Utilities make use of the exploitable Log4j code?

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 21, 2021 3:05:51 pm EST
Hello John,

Thank you for your message.

I've checked on this with our development department and they have confirmed that all Remote Utilities modules are safe and are not affected by the Log4j vulnerability since Remote Utilities does not use the affected library.

Please let us know if you have more questions.

Two factor authentication option Internet only

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 21, 2021 12:57:42 pm EST
Hello Glen,

Thank you for your message.

Unfortunately, currently it's not possible to enable the 2-factor authentication feature only for one type of connection, i.e. if it's enabled then you have to use 2FA every time you connect to a remote Host regardless of the connection type. However, I'll forward this to our development department for a review to see if we can implement this feature in our future updates.
Sorry if this makes our software less useful for you.

Please let us know if you have other questions.

Slow connection on LAN, but faast via internet

Pauline, Support (Posts: 2886)
Dec 20, 2021 3:56:53 pm EST
Hello Andreas,

Thank you for your message.

Could you please clarify if you mean that when you use Direct connection the connection speed and performance are slower than when you connect to the same Host via the Internet-ID connection?
If this is the case please try referring to this KB troubleshooting page and see if any of the solutions listed there help to improve the connection speed when using Direct connection.

Hope that helps.