A tool owned by Symantec that is used for gaining desktop access to remote PCs running a Windows operating system.
pcAnywhere is useful in several
capacities:
Helpdesk support of users' PCs
Remote support and administration of NT servers
File Transfer between the remote and host machines
Remote printing capabilities
Also important to note is that, with a slight
registry modification, pcAnywhere can be
socksified to remotely administer boxes that are behind a
firewall.
There are also a few
drawbacks to using pcAnywhere, some of them quite
severe:
Occasional need to stop & start the pcAnywhere Host Service on the remote box
Performance lag depending on the method used to connect to the remote machine
Rare unexplained reboots of remote machine during a pcAnywhere session
Note: With
Windows 2000, the need for pcAnywhere is virtually
obselete due to
built-in Terminal Service capabilities (the local user needs only
Terminal Server Client to connect to the desktop of the remote PC.