Guest Jethro Posted July 25, 2007 Posted July 25, 2007 I have two machines, one on my left and one on my right. By design I have named the machines LEFT and RIGHT :<) The machines are LAN'ed together via a router and are able to share each others folders in their root directories just fine. So my network must be set up okay. I want to try using Remote Management, and am trying to set up MMC to do so. On LEFT machine, I brought up MMC (via command line) and went to 'Add/Remove Snap-in', clicked on 'Add', and added 'Local Users and Groups'. It asked me to name the computer I wanted to manage and so I wanted to choose machine RIGHT. So I chose 'Another computer' and 'browse'. I then clicked on 'Advance' and 'Find Now'. It found LEFT and RIGHT in Workgroup MSHOME, and I selected RIGHT. MSHOME\RIGHT then showed in the select computer window. I then clicked on OK and Finish. I immediately got the error 'Unable to access the computer RIGHT. Access is denied'. What have I missed? Thanks Jethro
Guest WTC Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: Need Help with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Jethro wrote: > I have two machines, one on my left and one on my right. > By design I have named the machines LEFT and RIGHT :<) > The machines are LAN'ed together via a router and are able to share > each others folders in their root directories just fine. So my > network must be set up okay. > > I want to try using Remote Management, and am trying to set up MMC to > do so. On LEFT machine, I brought up MMC (via command line) and went > to 'Add/Remove Snap-in', clicked on 'Add', and added 'Local Users and > Groups'. It asked me to name the computer I wanted to manage and so I > wanted to choose machine RIGHT. So I chose 'Another computer' and > 'browse'. I then clicked on 'Advance' and 'Find Now'. It found LEFT > and RIGHT in Workgroup MSHOME, and I selected RIGHT. MSHOME\RIGHT > then showed in the select computer window. I then clicked on OK > and Finish. I immediately got the error 'Unable to access the > computer RIGHT. Access is denied'. > > What have I missed? Hi Jethro, Ensure you have the same User Name and Password for both of your machines. And make sure your User Account has Administrative privileges on both machines. Also I believe your User Account needs to have password to remotely access the other machine via MMC consoles. -- William Crawford MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Guest Jethro Posted July 26, 2007 Posted July 26, 2007 Re: Re: Need Help with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Re: Re: Need Help with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:09:12 -0700, "WTC" <bcrawfordjr(remove)@hotmail.com> wrote: >Jethro wrote: > >> I have two machines, one on my left and one on my right. >> By design I have named the machines LEFT and RIGHT :<) >> The machines are LAN'ed together via a router and are able to share >> each others folders in their root directories just fine. So my >> network must be set up okay. >> >> I want to try using Remote Management, and am trying to set up MMC to >> do so. On LEFT machine, I brought up MMC (via command line) and went >> to 'Add/Remove Snap-in', clicked on 'Add', and added 'Local Users and >> Groups'. It asked me to name the computer I wanted to manage and so I >> wanted to choose machine RIGHT. So I chose 'Another computer' and >> 'browse'. I then clicked on 'Advance' and 'Find Now'. It found LEFT >> and RIGHT in Workgroup MSHOME, and I selected RIGHT. MSHOME\RIGHT >> then showed in the select computer window. I then clicked on OK >> and Finish. I immediately got the error 'Unable to access the >> computer RIGHT. Access is denied'. >> >> What have I missed? > > >Hi Jethro, > >Ensure you have the same User Name and Password for both of your >machines. And make sure your User Account has Administrative privileges >on both machines. They have same username (jethro1 - administrator), but no passwords. > >Also I believe your User Account needs to have password to remotely >access the other machine via MMC consoles. Maybe so - but I don't think I am even getting that far. It hasn't asked me for username & password I guess because access is denied at the outset. Thanks anyway Jethro
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