access denied on remote WMI calls

I'm having a confounding time figuring out why I can't query WMI remotely.
The scenario is that I have an XP2, SP2 machine that is in a workgroup. I'm
trying to query the machine using WMI from either a Vista or another XP, SP2
machine. I am using the credentials of the workgroup machine's local
administrator account and regardless of what I do, I get "Access Denied". No
firewall is involved. Any ideas?

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Darren Mar-Elia

Can you connect local to WMI on this machine?

Matthias

"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> I'm having a confounding time figuring out why I can't query WMI remotely.
> The scenario is that I have an XP2, SP2 machine that is in a workgroup.
> I'm trying to query the machine using WMI from either a Vista or another
> XP, SP2 machine. I am using the credentials of the workgroup machine's
> local administrator account and regardless of what I do, I get "Access
> Denied". No firewall is involved. Any ideas?
>
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> Darren Mar-Elia
>

Since the machine is in a workgroup, there is a minor modification that you
need to do to get this to work: See this article.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290403

In a nutshell you need to update the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\forceguest = 0

Just a reminder, modifying registry entries may lead to unintended
consequesnes, use at your own risk.

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"Darren Mar-Elia" <dmanonymous@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:53D19A4A-4BFA-4732-BA10-0D71FDA0A5B8@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a confounding time figuring out why I can't query WMI remotely.
> The scenario is that I have an XP2, SP2 machine that is in a workgroup.
> I'm trying to query the machine using WMI from either a Vista or another
> XP, SP2 machine. I am using the credentials of the workgroup machine's
> local administrator account and regardless of what I do, I get "Access
> Denied". No firewall is involved. Any ideas?
>
> --
> Darren Mar-Elia
>