How can I control or explore a remote computer?

How can I control or explore a remote computer? This isn't being used for anything illegal, it's to monitor my children's computers.

I already tried putting in the \ipaddress\c$ to use, but that only works for the computers on your network. They are on their own network, that must be a stronger signal than the one we have.

Example:

main-computer - succesfully pinged 127.0.0.1

main-computer - connected to 127.0.0.1

main-computer - opening web-history.txt

main-computer - copying to folder "c:/monitoring"

main-computer - disconnecting from 127.0.0.1

main-computer - succesfully disconnected from 127.0.0.1

I'm trying not to use any kind of down开发者_Python百科loads or background clients. Honestly I don't have much 'hacking' skill. And I'm trying to do this from a .bat file.

You might look at PsExec from SysInternals.

I feel compelled to also say that I think remotely monitoring even childrens computers is a bit unethical, and I have heard (but not tested) that a better method to observe behaviour is just to have the computer in the family loungeroom.