Re: remote system information, Win2000 from WinXP

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From: Dennis Calhoun (dcalhoun_at_blomand.net)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:53:57 -0500

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:36:08 GMT, "Steven Umbach"
<n9rou@n0spam-comcast.net> wrote:

>You need to logon to your XP Home computer with a logon and password that is an
>administrator on the "W2K" computer. When you access shares on the W2K computer
>you can go to Computer Management/shared folders/sessions to see the user
>account that you are authenticating as on the W2K computer and when you run [
>net user username ] for that username it must show that it is a member of the
>administrators group on the W2K computer. -- Steve

Thanks Steve, but I did that before posting about it. This is an
example of what I meant when I said that "everything seems as it
should, but I still can not connect..."

Any other suggestions?

Dennis

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>"Dennis Calhoun" <dcalhoun@blomand.net> wrote in message
>news:7b63i01vsi3i4bbr14stap3jta3npggnt7@4ax.com...
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've found it impossible, despite my best efforts, to "view system
>> information" of a networked Win2000 system from an XP Home system. I
>> *can* access any shared directory on the Win200 box from the WinXP box
>> though.
>>
>> I've checked and found that Windows Management Instrumentation is
>> installed and started, my login is administrator, my firewall/s have
>> been set to allow (and even disabled), my... geesh, EVERYthing seems
>> as it should be, but I still can not connect to the Win2000 machine
>> via the XP System Information | View | Remote Computer... menu option.
>>
>> I get the same error, no matter what I try. That being....
>> The connection to <whatever name> could not be established.
>>
>> Any help will surely be appreciated, since I've spent countless hours
>> searching the MS knowledge base with no success.
>> --
>> Dennis C.
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