Re: Using WMI from Within a service.

Hi !

Be exact:You cannot use local system accounts, but you can "local accounts from that remote machine". I do it all the day, where my domain accounts are invalid, for example, on machines wich are not member of a domain.

If the remote machine may be named box1, you can connect with an account named "box1\localUser" [naturally, that account must have the right rights].

Best regards,
Manfred

Gerry Hickman wrote:
Scooby wrote:

But, this would only get you enough rights on your PC, for wmi, and not remote machines.

Exactly. You can't use local accounts to connect to remote machines. WMI works best when you have a domain and then you can use impersonation (Windows integrated) instead of having to keep passing username and password.

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