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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remote access
noun
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▪ Auto-dialling and remote access is possible from touch-tone telephones and electronic mail and voice-mail functions may be incorporated at a later date.
▪ The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
▪ There is also no character-based interface for remote access making it clumsy as a server.
▪ This ability to share the desktop has many useful features, like allowing remote access to your office computer.
Wiktionary
remote access

n. 1 (context telecommunication English) A communication with a data processing facility from a remote location or facility through a data link. 2 (context telecommunication English) A PABX service feature that allows a user at a remote location to access by telephone PABX features, such as access to Wide Area Telephone Service (WATS) lines.

Wikipedia
Remote access

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
    • [[Secure Shell|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

Usage examples of "remote access".

The one thing to remember about SMBs is that it allows for remote access to shared directories, the registry, and other system services.

Finally, a system codenamed Rye provided remote access to Harvest, thus permitting analysts throughout NSA to access the main computer via several dozen distant terminals.

One other thing, if you can get access for me but not remote access, take that.

For that matter, even Manticoran couriers were often picky as hell about the degree of remote access they granted Astro Control.

And when I told him I'd already done it, he insisted on remote access to the message files.

Deneb had remote access to it, through wire leads that pierced the casket's shell.

She considered running a realtime link from here to her apartment, but the more remote access existed, the greater the chance of eavesdropping.

My biggest worry is that my remote access is only good for as long as they stay with the current system.

In fact, they were designed for remote access by other BuCol ships and base facilities.