Re: Remote WMI scripting problems

There are many things that can go wrong with WMI. Check the troubleshooting
links I posted earlier.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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"lyott" <lyott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you for the help so far!
I tried adding in:
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ &
"{impersonationLevel=impersonate,authenticationLevel=Pkt,(Backup)}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
For some reason it still failed to retrieve the event logs from remote
computers. Are there any other possible problems that could be causing
this?
I'll try having another system administrator run it, in case they have
priviledges I'm not aware of, but is there any other potential cause to
this
error?

"Richard Mueller [MVP]" wrote:

Some time ago I researched how to connect to remote computers with WMI
and
found the following:

1. You cannot connect to computers running XP Home.
2. An NT computer cannot connect to OS later than W2k.
3. A W2k3 computer cannot connect to Win9x.
4. To connect to W2k Server SP4 you must set impersonation level to
Impersonate.
5. W2k computers must have SP2 to connect to XP or above.
6. W2k3 can only connect to Win9x and NT if credentials supplied.
7. To connect to XP or W2k3 you must set authentication level to Pkt.

I determined this before Vista came out, so I need to add to the list.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
Hilltop Lab - http://www.rlmueller.net
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