Hi, FWIW I have only ever got this to work when the machines are members of the same domain and the user running the process is in the administrators group (usually domain admins). Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Dave Sent: 23 September 2009 16:35 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] managing a computer via msc Hello, I am trying to manage a remote xp pro machine located across my network. Both machines can ping each other. The machine to be managed can list shares on other network machines, but existing shares can not be viewed on it, don't know if this is important. When i created an mmc console i told it to manage a remote computer, i right click the console and choose runas, give it the admin user/password on the other machine, mmc opens, displays the machine's name at the top of the tree, then about 15 seconds later times out with the network path was not found. A suggestion was to enable the remote administration firewall exception, i didn't see that one, i do see remote assistance and remote desktop, neither of which are what i need but i turned them on anyway. I do have powershell on this box and added an exception for it so i should be able to access the box via powershell. I'm starting to think the box needs a service on that isn't, either for powershell or remote admin. I am not seeing it. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins