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Hello, im using spiceworks 7.5.00098 and it can’t find all of me network devices.
I’ve wmi running in all Windows computers, admin user and password for access, ssh configured for another devices and Windows Firewall down and it still find 128 devices that is probably the number of computers I have in me organization but can’t do the inventory of them.
I need some help. That was a time lated in spiceworks 6.x that this seems to work but with the latest versions of spiceworks and with the upgrade to Windows 10 it stops working.

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If the PC hosting SW is Windows 10 this is not supported, many have it working but note this is not a supported OS to run SW application at this time.

That said lets tackle some issues.

Windows machines need file and printer sharing enabled at the network sharing centre level.

ping should be enabled

If UAC is enabled please tell me

You should scan machines with a domain admin account for windows

If this does not work lets start with the windows devices first, give me more information on those

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Are you saying that upgrading your workstations to Windows 10 has caused the inability to scan them? If you upgraded the Spiceworks server to Windows 10, that would be your issue (as Rod mentioned).

Is SW really suggesting you use a domain admin account now? I thought it just had to be an account that had admin rights on the computer(s) in question, and this method has worked well for us thus far. We ended up making a specific account have admin rights on all workstations via group policy.

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Local admin will do, but DA is suggested as it by default has access to all domain based machines.

If you have the ability to, as well as the know how to create a static local admin on all machines, this will work too, DA is just the simplified option (yes I know this has its security issues)

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I think that I didn’t made myself understood.

Mine SW installation is in a Windows Server 2012 R2. My workstations have Windows 10.

I’m using domain admin account and have a group policy to enable printer sharing at the network sharing centre level

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Windows 10 can be scanned fine.

Make sure you import the reg file attached on the clients, and reboot, this allows remote administrators to get passed UAC if this is enabled

Spiceworks_UAC_remote_allow.reg (167 Bytes)

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Maybe it’s not a problem with Windows 10. I just need to know what I need to open in the server and client side to allow spiceworks to scan properly.

Actually, I prefer not to work in regedit. I can’t do anything that can possibly go wrong

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If you don’t want my help, that is fine.

If you don’t want to add files in reg edit then you need to disable UAC, which is a bigger risk.

There is no other fix other than those I provide you.

  1. file and printer sharing needs to be enabled in network sharing centre

pings need to be enabled

UAC off or registry key imported - if you don’t trust me google the key it edits.

WMI commands to allow the scan to run.

I’ve posted the fixes many many times on here, search here for “Rod-IT WMI” and you will find how often I help people with this.

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I’m sorry Rod-IT. I don’t want you to think that I don’t want your help. I just prefer don’t messe with te regedit because of a bad experience. But I’ll manage it carefully and do what you’re saying.

Thanks a lot. I’ll post what I achieved after the changes that need to be made.

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The registry file above is pre-configured, simply double click it on the troubled machine, reboot and job done

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there are 128 machines. I need to aplly it via gpo

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I was asking you to test one to prove if it works or not, no point applying it to them all if it does nothing for you

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For my PC it always worked. For remote PC’s in another subnets it seems that don’t work. all of them with same domain policies.

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Any firewall between them, any IDS or IPS systems on the network?

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It gets better but still can’t find all the network devices. Before there was 120 devices that cannot be inventoried and now its reduces to 91 devices that cannot be inventoried.

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Something is blocking

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Windows firewall is disabled by gpo in all PC’s

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Something, not windows firewall, another firewall, AV, anything else on the client that may stop it?