Re: Win 2000 to Win 98 connection problem

From: Aruna Tennakoon (kakopappa_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/05/04 

Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:22:00 +0600

Hi Torgeir

            When I am tring to get connected to my Windows 98 machine from
Windows 2000 machine I am getting these error messages any ides .why ?

Win32_Processor: Win32: The authentication service is unknown.
Win32_WMISetting: Win32: The authentication service is unknown.
Security information: Win32: The authentication service is unknown.
Win32_OperatingSystem: Win32: The authentication service is unknown.

any idea how to fix those ?

-Thanks
Aruna

"Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> wrote in message
news:40451F22.23CEA1C6@hydro.com...
> Aruna Tennakoon wrote:
>
> > I am tring to get connect to a Windows 98 machine from my machine
which
> > is windows 2000.
> > but when i try to connect from windows 2000 machine i am getting
an
> > error
> >
> > "Failed to connect to \\192.168.10.171
> > because "Win32: The RPC server is unavailable.""
> >
> > but when i try to connect from windows 98 it' so okey
> >
> > any idea why is that ?
>
> Hi
>
> Check out the information and links in this post:
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3FE354F7.3745BEB8%40hydro.com
>
>
> --
> torgeir
> Microsoft MVP Scripting and WMI, Porsgrunn Norway
> Administration scripting examples and an ONLINE version of the 1328 page
> Scripting Guide:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx
>
>

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