Re: Please, WMI on W98

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From: Nelson Rodriguez (neroig_at_adinet.com.uy)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Thank you very much Torgeir.

    Nelson

    "Torgeir Bakken (MVP)" <Torgeir.Bakken-spam@hydro.com> escribió en el
    mensaje news:uK3eYQq7EHA.2516@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
    > Nelson Rodriguez wrote:
    >
    > > Hello friends.
    > > I have installed WMICORE.EXE, WSH 5.6 in a Pc with W98, what else
    > > I must do to manage this Pc from a Pc with XP?.
    > Hi
    >
    > Some input for you:
    >
    > Starting the Windows Management Service
    >
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/starting_the_windows_management_service.asp
    >
    > Automatically Invoking WMI on Windows 95/98
    >
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/automatically_invoking_wmi_on_windows_95_98.asp
    >
    >
    > From: Jerald R. Rawdon Jr.
    > Subject: Re: WMI & remote reboot
    >
    http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=t8e09is8aaai8f%40corp.supernews.com
    >
    > - and -
    >
    > from an earlier posting by Raman:
    >
    > <quote>
    > From: Raman \(Microsoft WMI Dev Support\)
    > Subject: WMI Information Series - [ How to configure Win9x for remote
    > connections]
    > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.wbem
    > Date: 2001-09-24 10:21:40 PST
    >
    >
    > As part of taking a more pro-active role in community newsgroups, the
    > wmi developer support group will be posting useful wmi information from
    > time to time to this newsgroup. This will include things like sample
    > code, tips, new KB articles and general wmi information.
    >
    > The following is the first post in this series. Stay tuned for periodic
    > future posts.
    >
    > Title : How to configure Win9x for remote connections
    >
    > To get wmi working on Win9x please do the following steps
    > 1. Set user-level access control
    > a. Right click on Network Neigborhood and select properties
    > b. Select 'Access Conrol' tab
    > c. Choose 'User-level access control'
    > d. Set 'Obtain list of users and groups from' to approriate Domain
    >
    > 2. Set DCOM permissions
    > You can either set using the registry or dcomcnfg
    >
    > Using the registry
    > a. Start->Run->regedit.exe
    > b. Goto HKLM\Software\Microsoft\OLE
    > c. Set EnableDCOM to 'Y'
    > d. Set EnableRemoteConnect to 'Y'
    >
    > Using dcomcnfg
    > a. Start->Run->dcomcnfg.exe
    > b. Select 'Default Properties Tab'
    > c. Check 'Enable Distributed COM on this computer'
    > d. Select 'Default Security Tab'
    > e. Check 'Enable Remote Connection'
    >
    > 3. Set WMI permissions
    > a. Goto c:\windows\system\wbem
    > b. Double click on wbmecntl.exe
    > c. Select Security Tab
    > d. Select Root in the namespace list
    > e. Click on security and add the appropriate users and give them all
    > permissions
    >
    > f. Select Advanced Tab
    > g. Uncheck 'Enable anonymous connection with share level security'
    > h. Select 'Always auto restart' in the 'Winmgmt process restart' frame
    >
    >
    > Raman
    > Microsoft WMI Developer Support
    >
    > </quote>
    >
    >
    > --
    > 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/scriptcenter/default.mspx


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