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.
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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?
The only advice I've found on the net is to disable the XP firewall in order to allow the use of taskkill across a Windows network. This is not an acceptable answer. The correct answer is to create a firewall exception for the following ports (I figured this out using Windows Firewall's security log, btw):
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