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Ok I have spent 2 days going through all the trouble shooting steps in the different posts and everything on the desktop machines checks out just.

When I look at the network scans i pick up all the machines but when trying to connect i get “There was a Windows authentication error when attempting to connect to this device.”

I checked all the WMI and DCOM settings from the various posts that have been made and I am not getting any further as they all check out with what they should be according to those post’s.

I am running Spice works on a vista 64bit buisness woudl that cause any issues in the connection between my machine and the xp pro systems?

Thank you in advance for yourhelp.

Jeremy

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try running wmidiag and going through that.

Also, here is a script that worked for me.

spiceconfig.bat (1.96 KB)

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OK I ran that batch file along with the diag tool, and still get this error when trying to connect to the machine i ran those tools on "check account, password or WMI configuration"

I know the account is good cause i can log into the computer with that account via rdp or on the actual machine.

Thanks

Jeremy

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  • Is the account a domain admin?
  • Have you got another account you can try?
  • Check the wmi permissions
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Yes

Have done it with 3 domain admin accounts.

Check which ones, the ones on the boxes thenselfs, if so then I have done that also?

Thnks

Jeremy

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This article helps with WMI permissions

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Yeap did this one already also.

This is frustrating.

Thanks for your help.

Jeremy

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  • Have you tried a local admin?
  • How about running the wmi check command locally?
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Havent done that since it is a domain environment. I have ensured domain admins are listed unde radministrators on the local machines.

Did that

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Is it possible that it’s something to do with vista trying to talk to xp pro machines

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Shouldnt be… have you turned the UAC off on the vista box?

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Actually no I haven’t on this one, should it be off?

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OK so here’s an update. I finally installed SW on one of my servers and everything works flawlessly. So it is something to do with SW installed on my Vista 64bit. I will try to trouble shoot it later and see if I can figure it out more.

Thanks for the help!