Hi. I am new at this so might ask a stupid question

lyntonbrown8017 · 2012-06-20T00:59:13.000Z

Hi.

I installed spiceworks yesterday and let it scan the network. Brought up a lot of unknowns so then went to the forums.

All the machines are on in a workgroup. So no Domain.

They all have an enabled Administrator Account with the same password.

I have run the script to make sure the firewall is not blocking anything.

I keep getting: check account, password or WMI configuration

I have no idea where to start from here. If I can get one machine working then I am pretty sure I can replicate it to the rest.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

maxsec · 2012-06-20T01:09:07.000Z

start with Jay’s nice how-to

http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2411

techie-v2 · 2012-06-20T01:09:55.000Z

You have not stated what OS they are, but, if they are xp machines all I have to do to get non domain machine to scan is run the firewall command

netsh set firewall service remoteadmin enable

and turn simple file and printer sharing off

then just make sure the username and password are right and it should work, when specifying the username in teh scan setup I dont put the computername\username - just username on its own

bytesnake · 2012-06-20T01:19:14.000Z

In addition (as you are new to Spiceworks) follow at least #1 - #3 of this how-to: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/420

(is the same a suggested in #9 of this http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/2411 )

lyntonbrown8017 · 2012-06-20T05:08:25.000Z

Thanks guys.

Will give the suggestions a shot and let you know

lyntonbrown8017 · 2012-06-20T07:06:17.000Z

Hi Guys.

The simple file sharing was the problem. Went and turned it off and all the machines came online except for 3 machines running Windows 7.

I have already run the firewall script on them. Set up an account for access. Turned of UAC.

Any other suggestions?

Once again thank you for the help!

lyntonbrown8017 · 2012-06-20T07:33:46.000Z

I get this error message:

C:\Users\Crossings>wmic /user:Administrator /password:xxxxxxxxxx /node:192.168.1
00.69 systemenclosure get serialnumber
Node - 192.168.100.69
ERROR:
Description = Access is denied.

I have gone to Management → Services and Applications → WMI Control and under root security made sure Administrators have ticks in all of the boxes.

lyntonbrown8017 · 2012-06-20T07:40:06.000Z

Got it!

Had to go to make the necessary changes in administrative tool/component services/my computer. You need to have the administrator authorized in com security.

techie-v2 · 2012-06-20T07:43:25.000Z

Glad to help