So here's where i'm at the moment
I found an old pc in the store room and ran the lsclient on it and got this error
Wmierror The handle is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070006 (E_HANDLE)) SNJHBUTILS (10.11.5.137) 2008/02/25 03:57:29 PM
Then i ran the netsh firewall service set remoteadmin enable
ran the script as above and restested .... still not working
did the following just to make sure everything is fine
Lansweeper connection tester
Ping test OK
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Remote registry test OK
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Remote WMI access test OK
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Remote \\snjhbutils\c$ access test OK
Then
1. Control Panel
2. Administrative Tools
3. Computer Management
4. Services & Applications
5. WMI Control
6. Right Click WMI control > properties
7. Security tab
8 Select button at the bottom (Verify "Administrators" group is allowed permision)
9. "Administrators" Group is in the list.
Then
and CMD typed dcomcnfg.exe
1. Component Services
2. Computers
3. Right Click my computer
4. Properties
5. Default properties
6. "Enable distributed COM on this computer" was checked
7. Default authentication level: "Connect"
8. Default Impersonation Level: "Identify"
9. Click on COM security tab
10. Edit Limits under "Launch and activate Permissions"
11. Remote Launch and Activation permissions are enabled for the administrators group in fact everything is ticked
checked AD Lsscanner are part of Administrators, Domain admins, and domain users.
I still have this error
Wmierror The handle is invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070006 (E_HANDLE)) SNJHBUTILS (10.11.5.137) 2008/02/25 03:57:29 PM
please help