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I have a network of about 20 computers on a domain and Spiceworks has been working great for all of them. However, there is 1 single PC that is not on the domain and just in a workgroup by itself for various reasons. It shows up on the scan and it gives a scan error “Windows authentication error when attempting to connect to this device.” I know the usual domain credentials won’t work so I made a local account on that PC that I hoped I could plug into Spiceworks so it would gain access. Still won’t accept the credentials to scan the machine. The result of a wmic /user:USER_NAME /password:USER_PASSWORD /node:IPADDRESS systemenclosure get serialnumber is “Access is denied.”. The group policy and firewall settings have already been configured. I feel like I’m missing something really simple here, so I’m hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks!

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GPO won’t apply to this standalone, make sure you run the proper script or configure it manually to allow WMI through the firewall.

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I’ve tried using “netsh firewall set service remoteadmin enable subnet” with no luck, and I’ve also tried disabling the Windows Firewall and anti-virus on the PC temporarily as well with the same results. It seems to be authentication errors, not firewall. The computer is running XP SP3 btw.

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Are you putting in the username you set up as “computername\username” i.e. company-mis-002\LAdmin ?

Edit: Previous Employer requested removal of reference to company.

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Got it working now. That was one of the mistakes I was making, I didn’t have the local computer name in front. However, that alone didn’t fix the issue. I had to disable the ForceGuest as mentioned at:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/578?page=1

Thanks Alex!