RE: Scheduled tasks on remote machines

From: KG (aitog_at_noemail.nospam)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:12:18 +0200

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 06:47:38 +0000, Rhett Gong [MSFT] wrote:

> Hello KD,
>>Another possibly related problem is that on win2000 I used to see the
>>"Scheduled Tasks" node when browsing the REMOTE host in explorer but this
>>is missing on the XP host.
>
> If you can't see "Scheduled Tasks" not when browsing the remote host in
> explorer. that mean you are not a member of Admin group in remote computer.
> I get you are in a non-ad evironment and logon as a local Administrator in
> your computer, to access remote computer's "Scheduled Tasks", you have to
> change your Administrators password to the remote Administrator's password
> (i mean both administrators use the same password).

> Please feel free to let me know if it works for you.

Thanks, but this does not work for me.

Here's the setup:

test1 (Windows XP SP2, latest updates)
test2 (Windows XP SP2, latest updates)
both PC's are in the same workgroup (WORKGROUP). Administrator password is
the same for both. Besides updates, both PC's are vanilla.

When browsing test1 from test2 I am forced to use Guest account (User
name: field is disabled and filled in with Guest), so I cannot login as
Administrator. (Security policy??)

On test2 trying to list scheduled commands on test1 (logged in as
test2/Administrator):
schtasks /query /S test1 /u test1\Administrator
(password etc.)
fails.

net use \\test1\IPC$ /user:TEST1\Administrator

fails with the same error (invalid user ...)

This used to work on Windows 2000, so I guess there must be some new
default security policy setting of which I am not aware of.

Can anybody enlighten me?

KG

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