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I have a couple of devices in the inventory that are “Unknown”, and I am unsure why.

I have checked the DHCP IP address, and it relates to a workstation, the workstation is accessable throgh WMIC, and I am able to connect remotely to the PC, so I am pretty sure it’s not a firewall issue. The computer also shows in the workstation group, despite currently showing as unknown, so i’m guessing it has been accessed during a previous scan?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks SpiceHeads.

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there are also lots of Help and How-tos that will help with some of the details.
Resolving Antivirus and Firewall issues in a Domain: http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Configuring_AV_Firewall_Domain
or Workgroup: http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Configuring_AV_Firewall_Workgroup
DNS issues: http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Resolve_Your_DNS_Issues
Testing Authentication: http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Using_Spiceworks_To_Test
Troubleshooting WMI: http://community.spiceworks.com/help/Troubleshooting_WMI
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/93778

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In addition you might also like to follow this: Troubleshooting Spiceworks Inventory Inconsistencies - Spiceworks … (#1, #2 and #3 at least)
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/420
and restart SW and scan New

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Resolving Spiceworks Unknowns Script to make changes to the PCs with ease: http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/181-resolving-spiceworks-unknowns-unofficial
If you have Vista and Windows 7 PCs and want to keep UAC, comment out line 36, 37, 38 in this script. Then use this instead: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/317
Enable Spiceworks Scanning for Windows Vista / Windows 7
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/377