Sweep network without Domain logins?

[cology]

In a remote office that we acquired, they have a separate Domain server (Win2k3) but all of the clients run Windows XP Home edition on laptops. So they don't login to the Domain. Is there any way to get Lansweeper to sweep those laptops? They have a couple servers also and they are the only ones Lansweeper has picked up since they actually login to the Domain.

Thanks in advance!

[cology]

Yeah I took a look at it also... There are just too many limitations with Home. I will have to try to get these laptops upgraded next year.

Thanks for your help!

[taeratrin]

OK, I've removed psexec form the equation, but the limitations imposed by XP Home will still cause this to fail. After looking through the restrictions I'm not sure there is a practical way of doing this, aside from configuring each laptop individually.

This is why businesses shouldn't use XP Home. Sure, it saves a bit of money upfront, but in the long run you're just screwing yourself over.

If you still want to try it, I'm uploading it to my original Deploy Client thread

[cology]

Sure thing! That would be awesome! I am a programmer myself. I have done a lot of C# and C++ work. VB# isn't a problem either...

[taeratrin]

I'm working on taking psexec out of it and replacing it with some WMI code. If you're interested, you could be my tester 🙂

[cology]

I just took a glance at your deploy tool and since it uses psexec.exe it won't work. Psexec.exe will not work on XP Home due to XP Home not having the Admin$ share. I tried using Psexec.exe then found out it will not work with XP Home. Thanks anyhow.

[cology]

Thanks taeratrin! I will give it a go!!!

[taeratrin]

You could try using my deployment tool. As long as the computers are joined to the domain (doesn't need to be authenticating through domain, just joined to it) and you have domain admin rights, it should work. The only problem is that it will not pick up the username properly (it shows as the account running the deployment tool), but since these machines aren't logging into the domain anyways it shouldn't matter. The latest version can be found here : http://www.lansweeper.com/forum/yaf_postsm4139_Deployment-tool.aspx#4139

[cology]

Doh that is exactly what I thought. They do authenticate in order to access the shared drive but that is it. I have assumed that this is not enough to trigger an active scan.

[cology]

This domain is separate with a separate install of Lansweeper. My domain works perfectly. So what you are telling me is Active Scanning will scan every computer in the AD no matter if it is running XP Home?