WMI - Access denied?

[Geoff Kenny]

Installed Symantec PCAnywhere 10.5, then removed it. (It
killed my ATI Radeon VE drivers).

Since then, I am unable to access WMI on remote machines.
This problem only exists on my machine. It worked
yesterday. Now I get a long message saying 'connection
could not be established'.

Reinstalled Win2k SP4...not fixed

I can access local WMI info, but not from remote machines.

Using the same domain user account, I can access WMI on
remote machines IF I do this from any other machine on our
network.

I'm seconds from wiping this machines HD and reinstalling,
but I'd save about 6 hours wasted time if someone could
tell me what might have gone wrong.

 

[Geoff Kenny]

Resinstalled Windows 2000, taking the 'upgrade' option.
My system is back, operational, and able to access WMI on
remote systems.

Also had to reinstall W2k_sp4, and IE6_SP1, but much less
painless than reinstalling machine from scratch.

Still don't know exactly what caused this, but I think its
fairly safe to assume Symantc PCAnywhere 10.5 replaced
something (a DLL related to WMI?) that it shouldn't have.