Remote access may refer to:
- Connection to a data-processing system from a remote location, for example through a virtual private network
- Remote desktop software, refers to a software or an OS feature allowing applications to be run remotely on a server while being graphically displayed locally
- Terminal emulation - when used to interface with a remote system. May use standard tools like:
- Telnet, software used to remotely control a computer system
ssh, secure shell often used with remote applications
- Activation of features of a business telephone system from outside the business's premises
- RemoteAccess, a DOS-based bulletin board system
- Remote Database Access, a protocol standard for database access
Famous quotes containing the words remote and/or access:
“Oh! what a poor thing is human life in its best enjoyments!—subjected to imaginary evils when it has no real ones to disturb it! and that can be made as effectually unhappy by its apprehensions of remote contingencies as if it was struggling with the pains of a present distress!”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves.”
—Saul Bellow (b. 1915)