Re: WMI issues

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The simplest way is to temporary disable the firewall on the client PC. Then connect the WMI for the server, if it works then it is a firewall rule issue. If not then it is likely to be a DNS/WINS or a firewall between the two PCs.



I use Wbemtest to remotely connect to PCs.



"T. Smith" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ODiFFYcRJHA.5376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hmmm... WMI appears to be running properly on SMS server and pc, but when I attempt to connect to WMI on computer from server I get
failed to connect to \\computer
because "win32. The RPC server is unavailable"

Any ideas what I can test for that?? RPC is running on both boxes...

"Garth" <Spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B29BE017-B9F0-48DF-8E6A-0C560636E69C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can we assume that you have checked the firewall and ensured that you can talk to those boxes remotely via WMI?


"T. Smith" <me@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uHQ7zWTRJHA.5064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hey there,

I'm getting some WMI errors when connecting to some computers. I've tried resetting up the client on these computers, and it doesn't resolve the issues.

The error I keep getting on certain computers is:

While trying to connect to WMI on "computer" an error occured.
Error 462
Description: The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable.

I can't rerun advertisements, or any other tools in SMS because it can't talk to WMI on these machines...

I tried running the following batch I found, but didn't work :
net stop winmgmt /y
c:
cd %windir%\system32\wbem
if exist %windir%\system32\wbem\repository.old rmdir /s /q repository.old
rename %windir%\system32\wbem\repository repository.old
for /f %%s in (' dir /b *.dll' ) do regsvr32 /s %s
net start winmgmt
wmiprvse /regserver

Any ideas?






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