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mark tognella
O.K., desperation time, before I start I am not talking about a Domain
here. I am only talking about a simple home workgroup. I have WMI
security working without trouble at work in our corporate domain, but
can't work out why I can't get it to work at home where I do not want
a domain. Here is my problem. If I use [Computer
Management][Services and Applications][WMI] and bring up the
properties on a local machine, it works fine. If – however – I
<right-click> on [Computer Management] and then connect to any other
computer in my workgroup; then attempt to get the properties of WMI, I
simply receive the message that "Failed to connect to <computer name>
because Win32: access is denied" I have made absolutely sure that the
local administrator's accounts are exactly the same name and password.
I have made absolutely sure that the remote machine's ‘WMI Security
settings' for the local administrator are maxed out and inherited from
"Root" namespace down. I have tried many other bits and pieces, but
simply can't get this to work. In my Corporate Domain at work,
security is set through ‘domain security objects' and I have no
trouble writing scripts that use WMI on remote machines. Just can't
get it to work at home and it is driving me crazy. Please any help on
what to try? Because I can't get the bloody authentication to work, I
can't get Microsoft's WMI explorer to return structures on computer in
my home network other than the one I am working on, which is really a
pain in the #$%^rse.
here. I am only talking about a simple home workgroup. I have WMI
security working without trouble at work in our corporate domain, but
can't work out why I can't get it to work at home where I do not want
a domain. Here is my problem. If I use [Computer
Management][Services and Applications][WMI] and bring up the
properties on a local machine, it works fine. If – however – I
<right-click> on [Computer Management] and then connect to any other
computer in my workgroup; then attempt to get the properties of WMI, I
simply receive the message that "Failed to connect to <computer name>
because Win32: access is denied" I have made absolutely sure that the
local administrator's accounts are exactly the same name and password.
I have made absolutely sure that the remote machine's ‘WMI Security
settings' for the local administrator are maxed out and inherited from
"Root" namespace down. I have tried many other bits and pieces, but
simply can't get this to work. In my Corporate Domain at work,
security is set through ‘domain security objects' and I have no
trouble writing scripts that use WMI on remote machines. Just can't
get it to work at home and it is driving me crazy. Please any help on
what to try? Because I can't get the bloody authentication to work, I
can't get Microsoft's WMI explorer to return structures on computer in
my home network other than the one I am working on, which is really a
pain in the #$%^rse.