Quick Remote Actions 2.0 by Daniel Stricharz Quick Remote Actions 2.0 is Freeware. Overview: Quick Remote Actions is an add-on product for Novell Z.E.N.works Full Release. Its main purpose is to give you fast and convenient access to the Remote Management features of Z.E.N.works. The primary idea of this tool was to create a way to allow remote management based on usernames instead of workstations. In fact, Quick Remote Actions is currently the only tool known, to be able to do that. However, QRA has grown in a much more powerful tool, that can replace Netware Administrator as the only tool for launching Z.E.N.works Remote Management functions. The utility assists in locating which workstation the user is logged into by allowing you to search NDS or browse a graphical NDS tree for either usernames or workstation objects. Different from the standard features found in Z.E.N.works, Quick Remote Actions allows Remote Management centered on a user object directly - thus, you won’t need to know the name of the specific workstation object. Besides providing you with a slick method for launching remote control, QRA can be used for informational purposes: a customizable window pane displays real time information from NDS. In addition to selecting objects from the tree, users or workstations may be searched with the help of a search box. Once Quick Remote Actions succeeds in launching Remote Control or any of the other Remote Management features found in Z.E.N.works 2, the chosen object will be added to a history list, making accessing specific Remote Management objects even faster. What's new: Since releasing version 1 of Quick Remote Actions, lots of usability feature were considered for addition. Due to the astonishing amount of user input received from all over the world, I was able to produce a much more robust and powerful version of Quick Remote Actions. While the new version adds several new features and changes to the UI, several bugs were cleared out of the code, that you may have encountered while using Quick Remote Actions v1. Here is an overview of the new features and changes since version 1: - QRA will now show what workstations a user is logged on instantly. - QRA can show customized NDS information for workstation and user objects. - If you searched for a user, QRA v1 would have launched the remote management immediately. Now, you will be able to see what workstations are in use by the user first. Moreover, if you use the NDS information pane, general information about a user or workstation can be gathered. - The most obvious changes can be noticed on the interface: The Multiple Results tab has been removed and its function is now part of the Remote Action tab. An additional pane was added for displaying customized NDS information. The Workstation Database tab is now included in Settings. - You can refresh the display of the tree or any container through right-clicking a container and selecting "Refresh Container List". This will allow you to reflect the addition/move/deletion of user or workstation objects during a QRA session. - In QRA v1, if you start a search at the top of the tree and the user is found in a sub container you would need to browse back to the top in order to start another search from top of the tree. Otherwise, your next search would start in the current container shown in the browser. To counter this, a permanent starting point for searches can be set now. - Setting the default remote action can be done from a small drop down box at the Remote Actions tab. - User and workstation objects are displayed using traditional distinguished names in NDS. - If your environment consists of more than one NDS tree, QRA can be invoked with the new command line argument "/tree=". - Bugs in the way the workstation database file was built, if some workstations use one network protocol and others two are fixed. - The history feature was fixed. Version 1 would sometimes overwrite old entries while adding new ones. - Querying the Inventory DB server using QRA finally works. A bug in QRA v1 rendered this function useless. - ... and much more bugs fixed Installation: !!!Important!!! Make sure to make a backup of at least OLEAUT32.DLL residing on your computer before installing the software. In some rare cases the updated version of OLEAUT32.DLL was reported to make trouble with some thrid-party products. In this case please copy your backup version back on your system. OLEAUT32.DLL is usually located in the directories \windows\system\ or \winnt\system32\. Decompress the file qra.zip to a temporary directory. Choose SETUP.EXE to start the installation. During installation you may get prompted to reboot your computer. The setup procedure needs to update the file OLEAUT32.DLL to proceed with the setup in this case. After rebooting your computer, please restart the installation procedure. System requirements: · Windows 95 or higher/Windows NT 4.0 or higher · Novell Netware Client · Novell Z.E.N.works Full Release . NWDir.OCX v2.0 or higher (included in the setup package) List of files: · ASYCFILT.DLL, Ver. 2.40.4277.1 · COMCAT.DLL, Ver. 4.71.1460.1 · MSCOMCTL.OCX, Ver. 6.0.84.98 · MSVBVM60.DLL, Ver. 6.0.84.95 · NWDIR.OCX, Ver. 2.1.0.0 · NWSESS.OCX, Ver. 1.2.2.0 · OLEAUT32.DLL, Ver. 2.40.4277.1 · OLEPRO32.DLL, Ver. 5.0.4277.1 · QRA.EXE, Ver. 2.0.0.0 · QRA.HLP · STDOLE2.TLB, Ver. 2.40.4277.1 · VB6STKIT.DLL, Ver. 6.0.84.50 Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, Quick Remote Actions by Daniel Stricharz