WMI Credentials
To change the preferences for WMI Credentials, select the menu:
- File, Discovery Options, or click on the Discovery Options button in the File toolbar (a green screwdriver)
- Then choose the WMI Credentials tab
WMI uses a strong security model. To read WMI values from a remote computer, you will normally need an administrator account (See WMI Security). Up to 8 accounts can be specified in this dialog.
- Domain/Computer: the name of a Windows domain or a computer. Domain is valid for computers part of a NT4 or Active Directory domain. For computer installed in a Workgroup, the computer name is used instead. This is the regular syntax to access Windows computer:
- domain\user is used for AD and NT4 domains
- computer\user is used for Workgroup machines
- User: the name of the account
- Password: password of the Domain or machine account. (Be careful, this information is currently not encrypted on disk !) Accounts with blank passwords are accepted (but this is a really bad idea).
During the discovery process, NetworkView follows the following steps
- It tries to find the domain name or computer name of the currently discovered node in one of the 8 accounts of this dialog
- If available, it tries to connect to the remote node with this account
- Else, it tries a connection with the current credentials (the one you are logged in)
- Else, it tries all other accounts in the list
- Connection has failed
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