using xp's eventquery.vbs on win2k server... need a little assistance

chris.jasper_at_gmail.com
Date: 05/03/05 

Date: 2 May 2005 16:22:18 -0700

Hello,

I recently found that the eventquery.vbs script which comes with XP and
win2003 server could save me a ton of time sifting through logs.. I
figured out how to get it to work (mostly) on win2k by doing the
following:

This script does not exist in windows2000 (server) but can be made to
work by doing the following:

1. Copy eventquery.vbs from XP or win2003server to c:\winnt\system32\
2. Copy CMDLIB.wsc from xp or win2003server to c:\winnt\system32\
3. Register CMDLIB.wsc with the windows 2000 machine by doing the
following at a command prompt:
        regsvr32 c:\winnt\system32\CMDLIB.wsc /s

On my test instance (win2k server), I was able to query the security
event log with no troubles. I then did the above procedure on my win2k
domain controller. I can query all logs accept the security log (which
is the one I most want to query). Here is the error I get when running
cscript c:\winnt\system32\eventquery.vbs /l security /v on my win2k
domain controller:

ERROR: Unable to execute the query for the 'security' log

I can use the /s computername switch to query the security log on a
domain client (xp or win2ksp4) from the domain controller with no
problem. I also attempted to run the eventquery.vbs script from one of
my XP domain clients with the /s domaincontroller and it to failed with
the same error message.

I CAN see the security log using the event viewer on the domain
controller.

Can anyone shed light on this?

thanks,
cj

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