

When scanning Windows computers without a scanning agent, you may at some point encounter machines that return 'access denied' scanning errors. Interesting extra, here are the logs from my admin account that works for scanning:Įrror: The user name or password is incorrect.Īccess is denied, please check your credentials.Ĭonnection Failure. Lansweeper pulls Windows computer data from WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), a management infrastructure built into Windows operating systems. I honestly have no idea what is going wrong, the server is not logging these events either so that log file is useless. Our own internal IT team has also struggled with implementing Lansweeper while adhering to the principle of least privilege, as.

This is also why our requirement articles include it. You need to check the permission in various locations, including the Local. However, it is required to scan 100 of the data from those devices. To fix WMI Access is denied or WMIC Access is denied, you need to follow the same set of solutions as mentioned above. Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Admin access is technically not required to scan Windows, Mac, or Linux devices. If this is not correct, please check for DNS problems

If this is not correct, please check for DNS problems. WMI Access is denied - Lansweeper Community - 21235 Lansweeper Community Forum Archive WMI Access is denied Options WMI Access is denied vmw2 Engaged Sweeper Options 03-22-2011 11:29 AM I'm freeware user of the 4.1 version (i'll first try the freeware to know if it's suitable for me). Scanning Lansweeper Service (on this machine). Now we are getting access denied issues while it's trying to scan while it was fine using my admin credentials. So we decided to go with a service account for scanning, we made it with a huge randomly generated password so it's not easily guessable and set it to work. Lansweeper pulls Windows computer data from WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), a management framework built into Windows operating systems.
