Torgeir has a good point! I may have misunderstood the question. Fabricio,
if by personal firewall you mean the personal firewall on a Windows XP
Professional machine (and not the firewall on a Windows XP Home Edition --
aka Personal -- machine), then it is possible to remotely manage the box
using WMI.
Since, WMI uses DCOM for remoting, enabling DCOM across the firewall should
allow it work. Below is a link I found on MSDN that may be of help.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndcom/html/msdn_dcomfirewall.asp?frame=true
A couple of other links that might be relevant:
HOWTO: Configure RPC Dynamic Port Allocation to Work with Firewall
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;154596
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]
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Philip Nunn said:
WMI cannot be made remotely accessible on XP Personal.
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Fabricio Tofoli said:
What ports should I open on the XP personal firewall to make the computer
accessible using WMI remotelly?
Thanks,
Fabricio