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Hi Hi Everyone!

OK, so I’m feeling my lack of experience here. I recently became the one and only IT person for my company. So far I haven’t had any issues but now that I finally had the time to do it, I’ve been trying to set up the SpiceWorks HelpDesk, Inventory and Network Monitoring programs. Unfortunately, I’m having an…interesting time with the Inventory. It will scan the Network just fine and it can see all the machines, but the issues I’m running into is the lack of domain. My boss has a server, but never bothered to finish setting up the domain. And none of the other workstations in the building have admin accounts…therefore, getting scan data and configurations beyond “oh this device is here and it is an error” is difficult…To complete my misery, my boss won’t permit any changes than what is necessary, so I can’t put them in a workgroup either.

So to make a long story short, is there any other way to pull the configuration data from the network without setting up admin accounts or using a domain? At this point I’m willing to try anything…

PS. Just to make life even more interesting…I may have the network name and password, but I am NOT the network admin…Fun, right?

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You’ll need individual admin credentials for each computer.

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I was afraid you were going to say that, all of the computers have local admin accounts but none of them have passwords. How do I go about doing the scan without any credentials beyond username?
(Yes, I know that’s horribly insecure but all the computers were set up before I started working here and my boss doesn’t permit any changes…ever)

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You could try leaving the password field blank, but I have doubts that it’ll work.

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How would I scan it? I just tried the WMI scan and that didn’t work. It didn’t allow me to leave the password field blank.

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You need to have passwords on them for the scan to be able to work.

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Plus is good security practice :slight_smile: just my .02 advice :slight_smile:

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WMI is the only way for SW to grab info from Windows PCs.

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lol you’re not wrong. I’ve been pushing for that, but again shrug my boss basically refuses to change anything that works. I’ll have talk to the supervisor about setting up separate admin accounts to get around it. She usually listens.

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Admin accounts NEED a password for WMI, the simplest way is to leave the default alone (if for whatever reason the companu wants to continue bad practise andin-security) and create another account with admins rights, the same password and never expires on each devices Spiceworks/5p1cew0rks! (obviously your choice) and scan with that

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I’m waiting on permissions right now, hopefully I’ll be able to do one of the two to resolve the issue: set up the admin accounts on the workstations, or get the boss to finish (or allow me) setting up the domains. I’ll let you know what happens.

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