Remote Management of Windows XP

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David Sabo

Hi All.
I'm trying to manage my winxp workstation in my active directory (2000
server) environment.
When I tried to connect with computer management to a remote computer,
it connects successfully but when I click on the Event Log snap-in it throws
me the following error:
"Unable to connect to computer <compute name>. Access Denied"
or when I tried to open the device manager on the computer management MMC,
it throws this error: "Cannot Access computer <computer name> . Access
Denied"
I only can access the Share Folders snap-in, When I'm managing the
computer from another winxp computer using or not the adminpak.
When I tried to manage a remote computer from my Win2000 Server
Domain Controller, I only can access de Local Users and Groups on the remote
desktop.
This problem only happens when I'm managing a winxp desktop, with
the win2000 desktop everything works fine.

Does anyone knows this problem?

I need to solve this issue, I was assigned to manage all the workstation
from my winxp computer.

I'll appreciate the help..

Regards from Venezuela.

David Sabo
Caracas-Venezuela
 
Propably you do not have administrative rights on that given WinXP desktop, but have on W2k one?

--
Dmitry Korolyov [[email protected]]
MVP: Windows Server - Active Directory


Hi All.
I'm trying to manage my winxp workstation in my active directory (2000
server) environment.
When I tried to connect with computer management to a remote computer,
it connects successfully but when I click on the Event Log snap-in it throws
me the following error:
"Unable to connect to computer <compute name>. Access Denied"
or when I tried to open the device manager on the computer management MMC,
it throws this error: "Cannot Access computer <computer name> . Access
Denied"
I only can access the Share Folders snap-in, When I'm managing the
computer from another winxp computer using or not the adminpak.
When I tried to manage a remote computer from my Win2000 Server
Domain Controller, I only can access de Local Users and Groups on the remote
desktop.
This problem only happens when I'm managing a winxp desktop, with
the win2000 desktop everything works fine.

Does anyone knows this problem?

I need to solve this issue, I was assigned to manage all the workstation
from my winxp computer.

I'll appreciate the help..

Regards from Venezuela.

David Sabo
Caracas-Venezuela
 
Yes I have administrative rights. I'm login in with a parallel account of
Administrator Account. In fact I can add computer to the domain with this
user... I have no restrictions.

tks, David
Propably you do not have administrative rights on that given WinXP desktop,
but have on W2k one?

--
Dmitry Korolyov [[email protected]]
MVP: Windows Server - Active Directory


Hi All.
I'm trying to manage my winxp workstation in my active directory (2000
server) environment.
When I tried to connect with computer management to a remote computer,
it connects successfully but when I click on the Event Log snap-in it throws
me the following error:
"Unable to connect to computer <compute name>. Access Denied"
or when I tried to open the device manager on the computer management MMC,
it throws this error: "Cannot Access computer <computer name> . Access
Denied"
I only can access the Share Folders snap-in, When I'm managing the
computer from another winxp computer using or not the adminpak.
When I tried to manage a remote computer from my Win2000 Server
Domain Controller, I only can access de Local Users and Groups on the remote
desktop.
This problem only happens when I'm managing a winxp desktop, with
the win2000 desktop everything works fine.

Does anyone knows this problem?

I need to solve this issue, I was assigned to manage all the workstation
from my winxp computer.

I'll appreciate the help..

Regards from Venezuela.

David Sabo
Caracas-Venezuela
 
Before you try this, try to make a connection to the C$ of that
machine or just any mapping. Maybe that will solve your problems.

Dennis
 
David,

I have run into this problem (frequently) when I am trying to connect to a
remote computer using a different username or password than the user
currently logged in. In other words, I login with a non-admin account. I try
to manage another computer, connecting with my admin credentials. I can
connect as an admin, but whenever I try to navigate in the left pane of
computer management, the computer responds to security challenges with
(non-admin) credentials of the currently-logged-on user, and I get access
denied (or at least, this is what Ethereal seems to tell me). I have noticed
this behaviour on 2000, XP, and 2003.

The only solution I have found is to login as a domain admin (or with a user
and password matching the username/password of an administrator on the
remote system) when I need to perform remote management tasks. As far as I'm
concerned, it's a bug.

\\ MadDHatteR
 
David,

We were having the exact same issue and I have found the fix to your
problem.

Open regedit
Navigate to this key
HKLM
SYSTEM
CURRENTCONTROLSET
CONTROL
SECUREPIPESERVERS
Right click on the WinReg folder and select Permissions... add
"Service" to that folder with read permissions.

Have a good day..

Cliff
 
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