Remote Assistance / Firewall Blocking??

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Are all the machines pingable with similar ping times ?



<coconutpete@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1124806069.206655.39130@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All,
> I'm having some trouble remotely administering a few XP Pro
> workstations. All PCs are on the same subnet, I have full admin rights
> throughout the domain. XP SP2 Firewall settings have been set via group
> policy and have been set in accordance with Microsofts recommended SP2
> settings for remote admin. The same settings work fine on most
> workstations it is just a handful that I am having problems with. I
> have checked the firewall settings and they do seem to be getting
> applied to all workstations. The 2 things that I am trying to do is a)
> remotely admin using Dameware and b) access admin shares ($C etc.)
> neither of which work. At first I thought I had cracked it with Simple
> File Sharing as it was enabled on a couple PCs but this did not solve
> the issue.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what else I could try?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin (More info?)

Issue has now been resolved, thanks.