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Hi;

All my client workstations have their own logins. I am trying to create the logins required but keep on geeting the message "Test Failed: check account, password or WMI configuration"

I know the account names and password, thus the problem must be the WMI configuration.

I am unfortunately not too educated on networks and am trying to manage my own company network, so I apologise in advance if the question might seem trivial or stupid.

Please help.

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First question - Don’t you hava a Administrator account setup with admin password

2nd - You can check if there is a firewall ON on the workstations.

If you have a Admin account and password you should be able get to most of your workstations with this credentials.

That’s my ideas.

Good luck

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Hi Dawid

Thanks for the reply.

The workstations’ firewalls are completely disabled and I have created administrator logins for them also. This doesn’t work. Is there any specific format to the entry of login details? Currently it goes as follows;

Account: Create Windows Account

Description: Rep2 (For customer representative station #2)

Login: Jaco (The administrative account created on the workstation)

Password: ********* (The password for the administrative account “Jaco”)

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Looks OK to me .

Can’t think of anything else.

Is “Jaco” got full admin rigts . Is there an account called Administrator that u can use

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Yes, Jaco has full admin rights. I’ve also figured out via forums how to nake sure the specific login is enabled in WMI and have double-checked to ensure everything is allowed in WMI Management. Still, to no avail.

Spiceworks detects the workstations but still cannot login. I keep getting the same error :

"Test Failed: check account, password or WMI configuration"

Also, Windows XP does have an “Administrator” account by default, with no password, I am trying to use that, but Spiceworks demands a password.

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Thank you for your interest and help. I have however, located the problem and its fixed now.

Have to set ForceGuest in the system registry to value “0” in \h_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa

Thanks anyways!!!

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I made the registry change you mention worked above…but I still get the check account, password or WMI configuration message.