uptime.exe not working remotely

[Information Scavenger]

I have 3 PC's on a home LAN all running XP Pro. I downloaded uptime.exe
from microsofts website. We use this where I work to see when a PC on the
lan was last rebooted (work for a help desk) and it works great. If I try
to run uptime at home, it will successfully report the uptime of the current
machine...but if I pass another PC's machine name or ip address, it
generates a windows popup dialog saying that the program has encountered a
problem and needs to close.

At work we run on a domain...at home, I do not...I just have a workgroup
setup. Can anyone suggest to me any reason why uptime.exe will only work
locally on the individual machines instead of remotely like it can? I have
one PC that has been giving me problems with random reboots...I want to be
able to run this from my room upstairs and see when the last time it was
rebooted...and since it reboots several times a day, if I just walk up to
the machine I can only see if it is logged in or not...and I could logon and
run the utility there...but its a long journey down to where its at and I
just thought it would be nice to see how long since the last reboot...

Thanks!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Such utilities need to be run as Administrators on the remote machine.

Are the credentials you are using (if you aren't using runas, they are
probably the credentials you logged into your machine with) administrators
on the remote machine?

For cross-network work like this you need accounts with passwords--so you
want an account with a password which matches an account and password on the
target which is an administrator.

 

[Grant]

I had similar problems with deploying the "shutdown"
command remotely!

It may help you to read the thread entitled "Remote
Reboot on XP" which I started.

I downloaded the "uptime.exe" util, and can use it just
fine after making all my changes! - uptime \\IPADDRESS

 

[Information Scavenger]

I created identical usernames/passwords on each PC's for myself, all with
admin priveledges...and I am running without RUNAS but would think it would
try to run with the same valid admin credentials as I have on my local
machine.

 

[Information Scavenger]

Thanks a ton Grant! After reviewing your thread and changing the security
setting to CLASSIC, it works flawlessly for me too

And as an added bonus, I also now know how to reboot machines remotely which
I previously was unaware was possible with the XP SHUTDOWN utility

 

[Zagan]

Would only use the same admin credentials if Admin
Profile was a Roaming User profile or, in the presence of
Active Directory!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

That works, but we all need to get away from that insecure model. We should
be encouraging all users to run as limited users most of the time, and use
administrative level accounts only when required. That's where Runas comes
in.

I'm not complaining about how you do it--just explaining why I try to post
in relation to the more secure way of doing things.