Peformance Monitor on XP Home

[Eldaria]

I have a slight problem.

I have 5 PC's in a Home Network, 4 of them running Windows 2000 Pro, and the last one running Windows XP Home.

I want from one of the Windows 2000 Machines be able to remotly monitor all of the PC's Ram, CPU, etc...

I can from all of the PC's monitor all the Windows 2000 Machines. But I can only monitor the XP Home machine from The XP Home machine.
This is not really handy, as the XP Home Is a laptop that is frequently not in the house, I would rather be able to monitor all of them from one of the 2000 machines.

But when I try to connect to the XP Home machine from one of the 2000 machines I get an error message, saying that it can not connct to that PC.

I guess it has something to do with Access Rights, but where Can I set those rights?

Any help is higly Appreciated.

Regards.
Brian.
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[wolluf]

Is the XP machine set up with IP address in same range as 2k machines, belongs to same workgroup and has resources shared?

 

[Eldaria]

Yes,
Yes,
And if you mean file shares, then yes.


Eldaria

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[wolluf]

Can you say exactly how you try to connect to XP machine and exact text of error message (eg, can you see the XP machine in my network places, and get access denied message when you click on its icon, or can you get as far as the share, or are you connecting another way - \\machinename\sharename).

Can you ping the XP machine?

 

[Eldaria]

Hmm, I connect through the Performance Monitor tool and it lists computers on the network, and I can select the XP computer. it then automaticly types \\Computername
same way as I connect to the other computers.

The Error, hmmm, I can't test it right now as I'm at work, but I beleive it was just "Can not Connect to \\Computername."
It was a short "non descriptive" message I know.

And everything else works, I can ping, and connect to shares, it is only the Performance monitor I can't connect to.
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[senseforgreed]

Seems like a DNS problem to me. Win2k is DNS based, so I expect WinXP is too. Try to add the IP-address and hostname into the host file (located %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc) from the computer your trying to reach on the pc which you're trying to connect from. I hope this makes sense...

Bart \m/

 

[wolluf]

Eldaria,

Which performance monitoring tool?

 

[Eldaria]

Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Performance

One of Windows built in tools.
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[wolluf]

Didn't know you could connect to other machines with performance monitor - but have just tried it from 2k to XP Pro (haven't got a Home installation unfortunately), and it worked. Thought it might be a Local Group Policy issue - but XP Home doesn't have them, if I remember (and anyway, you can access shares). So, I suspect it might be down to restrictions in XP Home.

There's a thread Thread779-274187 which mentions how to tweak Home so it can join a domain (don't know if applying this would change whatever's blocking your performance monitor access). If not, hopefully someone else can help you.

 

[Eldaria]

Well I'm quite sure it is with Restrictions, I don't have trouble connecting to file sahres on the network I just have to type my Username and Password, and I don't mind that.

But thanks for you help, maybe there are someon else who will see this thread.

There has to be a way of tweeaking XP Home, to accept RPC calls.
Eldaria

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