Remote Admin mode won't enable

[imdavies]

Having installed lansweeper on a SBS2003 network, I couldn't reach any of the clients.

I have read through these forums (and others) and have checked the following using the connection tester.

If I stop the windows firewall service, I can connect fine, with windows firewall active I get the following errors:

Remote WMI test
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\root\cimv2 Remote WMI access test FAILED
The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)

Remote Registry test using WMI
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\root\default Remote WMI access test FAILED
The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA

I am able to connect to the client registry from the server using regedit > remote registry

I am able to connect to \\clientname\c$ from the server

nslookup resolves name>ip and IP>name

I have disabled the RPC filter in ISA and created a rule with strict RPC compliance disabled as per the post http://www.lansweeper.com/forum/yaf_postst307_WMI-RCP-errorsproblems--Solved-for-me.aspx

I followed the instructions at http://www.lansweeper.com/kb/notfound.aspx and enabled remote admin in GP but this made no difference so I tried to enable it using the command netsh firewall set service type = remoteadmin mode = enable

It responds with OK but when I check the state using netsh firewall show state i get the following response

Firewall status:
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Profile = Domain
Operational mode = Enable
Exception mode = Enable
Multicast/broadcast response mode = Enable
Notification mode = Enable
Group policy version = Windows Firewall
Remote admin mode = Disable

Ports currently open on all network interfaces:
Port Protocol Version Program
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26675 TCP IPv4 (null)
1140 TCP IPv4 C:\Program Files\Lexmark 3500-4500 Series\lxdimon.exe
135 TCP IPv4 C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\inetinfo.exe
137 UDP IPv4 (null)
139 TCP IPv4 (null)
138 UDP IPv4 (null)
38191 TCP IPv4 C:\Program Files\Lexmark 3500-4500 Series\lxdiamon.exe
3389 TCP IPv4 (null)
445 TCP IPv4 (null)
19226 UDP IPv4 C:\Program Files\Panda Software\Panda Administrator 3\Pav_Agent\Pagent.exe
19226 TCP IPv4 C:\Program Files\Panda Software\Panda Administrator 3\Pav_Agent\Pagent.exe
6004 UDP IPv4 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\OUTLOOK.EXE
990 TCP IPv4 C:\Program Files\Microsoft ActiveSync\rapimgr.exe

whatever I do it seems to report that remote admin mode is disabled.

I decided to check the registry, in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess\Parameters\FirewallPolicy\DomainProfile\RemoteAdminSettings the dword Enabled is set to 1 (is this enabled)

does anyone have any ideas?

[Cobra7]

I personally don't know much about firewalls so I have no answers for you. The only thing I can suggest is going into Windows system properties, go to the remote tab and make sure both boxes are checked and configured. It may or may not have anything to do with firewall settings.

As far as Lansweeper, if it works with your firewall turned off you know it's not the software that is causing the problem.

[Hemoco]

Cobra7 wrote:
As far as Lansweeper, if it works with your firewall turned off you know it's not the software that is causing the problem.

Indeed.

Please use "gpresult" to check which GPO policies are applied.

Most likely it is a GPO (or local computer policy) which forces the domain policy to be like this.

[imdavies]

Have I truly beaten you all?

I had high hopes for this software but it seems it will go the same way as all the others I have tried.

damn and blast