WMI through firewall

What ports should I open on the XP personal firewall to make the computer
accessible using WMI remotelly?

Thanks,
Fabricio

 

WMI cannot be made remotely accessible on XP Personal.

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"Fabricio Tofoli" <> wrote in message
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> What ports should I open on the XP personal firewall to make the computer
> accessible using WMI remotelly?
>
> Thanks,
> Fabricio
>
>

 

Philip Nunn [MSFT] wrote:

> WMI cannot be made remotely accessible on XP Personal.
>
Hi

I wonder if the OP with "XP personal firewall" meant "XP personal" or
did he mean "personal firewall" that comes with XP...


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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/groups?selm=



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> WMI cannot be made remotely accessible on XP Personal.
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> --
> Philip Nunn [MSFT]
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> "Fabricio Tofoli" <> wrote in message
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>> What ports should I open on the XP personal firewall to make the computer
>> accessible using WMI remotelly?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fabricio
>>
>>
>
>

 

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):

TCP 135
TCP 4168
UDP 9256

You're welcome.

 

[Solution]

if you don’t want to turn off firewall on target machine then do this:

on target machine go to cmd.exe and type following command:

netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin enable

Read my complete article on remote WMI.

Max