RE: Accessing remote perfmon/PDH data from a service, how to

From: Dale Weiss (dweiss_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/18/03 

Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:29:10 GMT

Hello,

If the service is attempting to access a remote system with LocalSystem
credentials, then I would expect this to fail. The security context for the
service is the local system, which has rights locally but not to other
systems remotely.

Typically, when network resource access is required, a service account is
used.

The service account will need rights to access the target resource just as
a person would.

Dale Weiss MCSA MCSE CISSP
PSS Security

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