Problem accessing some XP/2K PC's

[Guest]

I am running Hyena 5.7. When I goto Computers under my domain name and view all computers. Some XP and 2000 PC's that I can verify are turned on, act like they are Windows 9x box's. In that I can not view any information about the PC's. All help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Jeff

[cmccullough]

Re: Problem accessing some XP/2K PC's

Some general things to look at:

Make sure you have appropriate permissions for these boxes
File and print sharing should be installed
Remote Registry service should be running

Beyond this we would need to know what errors you are getting, and what functions you are not able to run.

[Guest]

Re: Problem accessing some XP/2K PC's

Thanks for the quick responce. I look into the items you listed.

[Guest]

Re: Problem accessing some XP/2K PC's

I am now receiving the following error message. Unable to receive shared objects from \\computer_name. The network path was not found. I do have the RPC service and RPC Locator service running as well as Remote Registry. I do have appropriate rights to this PC. I can remotely administrer the PC via VNC. Just perplexed at this point.

[Guest]

Re: Problem accessing some XP/2K PC's

File and Print sharing is enabled as well.

[cmccullough]

Re: Problem accessing some XP/2K PC's

The next step would be to make sure there are no name resolution issues. Go to File->Manage Object View, click New and change the Type to Workstation. Enter in the name of a computer you are getting this error for, and in the Computer Path box enter it's IP address. Click Add, then OK and you should see this new object in Hyena's left window. See if you can manage it that way.