Permission denied, accessing another system with SC

[acidkewpie]

Hi, I'm trying to access services on a remote XP machine (from XP) but i am unable to get authenticated on the system. There are no shares on the system, but the IPC service is running, however it will not accept my username/password for the system:

net use \\ip.add.re.ss\IPC$ PASSWORD /U:ADMIN

but this constantly comes up with error 5, permission denied, unknown username or password. I know that this is 100% correct details.

Is there any other way to gain access to the AT and SC details on this remote system? (There are about 1600 identical *remote* machines out there, all refusing access!) just using SC (or the computer manager interface) just denies me permission, and never provides me with anywhere to give a user ID, so i assume it's required via this IPC service...?

Thanks

Chris

 

[bcastner]

If you are receiving an access denied error you are at least reaching the remote machine. I have always typed the command with this syntax: (Notice the "" marks)

net use \\xxx.xx.xxx.xx\ipc$ /u:"Administrator" "password"

You can use Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Action, and Connect to a remote computer. If your interest is in using the command line you could use Remote Desktop, or the terrific little tool psexec:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/psexec.shtml