INTRODUCTION

 A remote network is such a network in which you can monitor or use the resources of the other available stations or systems by sitting on a single PC. The resources of all the available systems can be utilized by sitting on one single computer. And this type of monitoring or utilizing the network without being physically sitting on that particular machine is called the remote access while such type of network is commonly termed as the remote network.

MANAGING A REMOTE NETWORK

The remote network can be managed very easily and in a very convenient manner. Now first and far most objective of remote network is to manage the disk quotas on the remote machine. So manage the disk space just follow the few steps below:

• Just right click on My computer icon and click Map Network Drive.

• A dialog box will appear.

• Type the path to the volume on the remote PC for which the disk quota is to be managed. Now just click Finish.

• After connecting to the remote volume open My Computer

• Just right click the remote drive or volume and then click properties.

• Click the Quota tab in the properties dialog box.

• Now click Quota entries.

• The page displayed is the quota entry page.

• Each of the shown rows depicts the information about the volume of the user.  

• Now double click on My Computer

• To manage remote computer disk quota it must be shared from the root directory of the volume

• You must be the member of the administrative group on that remote computer.

MANAGING DEVICES AND SERVICES

In the case of Windows NT, the authorization mechanism is based on the previous dialup permission grant to the user option. This is located in the user management option or present in the remote access utility. But in case of Windows 2000 the grant of authorization is totally dialup based.

Now managing a remote network gives network administrators the flexibility of authorization of the connection attempts. Now there are two access types which helps in managing a remote network. They are:

Access by User Account

Access by Policy

Now in case of access by user account the main access is granted on the basis of the accounts of the users. The user login information is used to authenticate it for accessing the remote data or drive

Now in case the access is granted on the basis of policy. A policy is derived that which users are allowed to access the system remotely.

In short the network can be accessed and managed remotely by sitting on a single machine and the resources of all the other machines can be utilized from there.