"discover", workgroup (non-domain) use, & source

[pbarranis]

Hi. I've been trying out and looking into your product more since my last post, and I'm really impressed. You've got a great product here. I've got a few more questions for you:

- What sort of support does LanSweeper have for workgroup (non-domain) environments? We're a small IT firm, and very few customers we run into are running in a domain environment.

- Is there any sort of "discover" feature that goes out and scans all IPs in a given range? (Not just all the machines on the domain)? One thing we've done in the past is, while sitting in an office or conference room of the client, we run a scanning tool that does a network inventory of all machines on their LAN; clients get real impressed when you can show them specific hardware problems on some of their machines before they've even signed a contract (not to mention the obvious security problems)...

- In my earlier post you mentioned that you ship the full source for the Web Console with the premium version. Not that I want to let the word get out, but it looks like you ship the website uncompiled in the free version too. Is there any other source code we'd get with the paid version? (Don't worry, there are features we'd definitely want in the paid version; I'm just wondering what I can look forward to 🙂

Thanks in advance. I can't promise these will be my last questions, but I'll do my best...
Patrick.

[Hemoco]

Windows 7 (RC) works but is unsupported at the moment since the final version is not officially released.
Lansweeper only requires WMI (no c$ or admin$)

The unique key is the same in the network support license.
The people that use this have one database per customer or local installations on each site.

[pbarranis]

Two more questions... First, what about Windows 7? I have two machines I'll be putting RTM on this week (presuming it RTMs this week, as anticipated). I know Win7 doesn't "play nice" with the C$ and Admin$ shares, which I suspect Lansweeper depends on. I would test it myself, but my two machines running Win7 aren't on any domain.

Second, as I understand it, Lansweeper isn't going to support having multiple machines with the same name (but on different domains), correct? Do any of the premium "network support" licenses support having multiple machines with the same name? It would not be unusual to find two companies with PCs named "receptionist", "server", etc.

Thanks for all your help so far.

[Hemoco]

- What sort of support does LanSweeper have for workgroup (non-domain) environments? We're a small IT firm, and very few customers we run into are running in a domain environment.

We officially don't support it but some people got it to work.

- Is there any sort of "discover" feature that goes out and scans all IPs in a given range?

No, it takes to much time and computers with the firewall on aren't discovered.

One thing we've done in the past is, while sitting in an office or conference room of the client, we run a scanning tool that does a network inventory of all machines on their LAN; clients get real impressed when you can show them specific hardware problems on some of their machines before they've even signed a contract (not to mention the obvious security problems)...

If you enable active scanning it should do the same for all computers logged on in the last hours.

- In my earlier post you mentioned that you ship the full source for the Web Console with the premium version. Not that I want to let the word get out, but it looks like you ship the website uncompiled in the free version too. Is there any other source code we'd get with the paid version?

The premium version has the same web code as the free version, you are only not allowed to change it in the free version.

[pbarranis]

I forgot a couple more questions:

- Have you considered, or do you have plans, to develop your admin console as a web app rather than a desktop app?

- Would you consider providing the source for the admin console so we could do the above? We actually have a software consulting team (which I run), so we could also consider a back-sctraching scenario where we provide the source to whatever we develop...

Thanks.

[Hemoco]

Have you considered, or do you have plans, to develop your admin console as a web app rather than a desktop app?

Not really.

Would you consider providing the source for the admin console so we could do the above? We actually have a software consulting team (which I run), so we could also consider a back-sctraching scenario where we provide the source to whatever we develop...

Please contact us by mail to discuss this.