Connecting to Managed clients from a Desktop?

I tend to simply launch "C:\Program Files\Symantec\pcAnywhere\PCAQuickConnect.exe" and type the machine name into the correct field.  I believe this gets put down with the PCAnywhere plugin.

As an alternative, you could have a Vbscript take a command line parameter of the machine name and launch the console to the appropriate URL to launch PCAnywhere.

I think the first option will suit your needs though!

RS

You could probably integrate PCAQuickConnect.exe into the DS. Copy the executable to the express share and add the following to your remotecontroltools.ini:

[PCA]
Display-Name=&pcAnywhere
RemoteToolEXEFilePath=PCAQuickConnect.exe
CommandLine=%COMPNAME%

More info on the remotecontroltools.ini: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/use-...

I'll be curious to hear if it works.

Very effective and useful when you are using both NS and DS in a mixed environment. The one gripe (if you could call it that, more of a whine really), was that if you used the Connect articles (and now KB) method of customization and added other tools, they only show up under Remote Control. So you can't customize the folder.

Also I believe it is limited to DS6.9 and above.