Windows xp computer management access denied

Our application uses bunch of WMI calls. How to access WMI server under guest account? MSC but still I am getting access denied errors. Are you sure you want to give the guest account WMI remote access? I'm not sure the security implications of that It's been a long time for me on this one so I'm not sure this will solve everything, and I don't remember all the details so I'm leaning on this forum post.

Once again even if it works for you I'd look carefully at whether there are security issues with giving this kind of remote permission to the Guest account. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. Security TAB, i myself now don't have access to it, even though i use the administrator account. Can anybody help me recover my access. When I connect to some but not all Windows XP clients through Computer Management there is a red X on the users and groups selection and get an access denied error if I click it.

But the interesting thing here is that managing some XP clients is ok. Another interesting thing is that if I try to manage the problem XP clients from a client or server all works as it should no red X, etc. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, Jeff. Access denied using Computer Management. Post a reply. Jump to: VC.

I am currently running Windows Update v4: 1 When I try to install downloaded updates from automatic update , it gives me an error. I am examined iuhist. After manually downloading and extracting each update to a separate folder. I ran Filemon from sysinternals. What do I need to setup to get this working? Please let me know. Thank you! See if this applies. Hmm, thanks for the link but I don't believe the other computers are running service pack 2.

I think I need to edit something in the group policy but not sure what is needed. Is the Remote Registry Service running? Have a look at any firewall that may be blocking MMC. Hi linney, Thanks for your replies. Actually, I can connect to the other workstation but I can't open up anything. For example, when I try to go to: 1. Click on "Services and Applications" 2. Of course. You can do anything with group policies. Well the thing is that I just started here 2 months ago and the Boss is very anti-Microsoft.

Which means minimal Windows stuff which means before I came here nobody did anything more than the basics of creating users and joining computers to the domain. There are no group policies at all. I submit its possible that someone might have tinkered with the default policy which is what appears to be happening so I'll poke around.

Basically, ALL the computers are in their default containers. Thanks for the pointers.