Eudmin Posted March 15, 2005 Share Posted March 15, 2005 I recently upgraded an XPPro machine to XP Service Pack 2 to a machine and now when I try to manage it over the network I get the message\\machinename cannot be managed because it is not running Windows NTbut if I click OK, that I want to manage it anyway it all seems to work. While it works it shows a red X over the computer name. Anyone have any ideas for what is going on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KAndle Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 It's probably to do with the Windows Firewall. Try with firewall disabled and if problem goes away check the exclusions on the firewall before reenabling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamb2k6 Posted May 11, 2006 Share Posted May 11, 2006 (edited) It's probably to do with the Windows Firewall. Try with firewall disabled and if problem goes away check the exclusions on the firewall before reenabling.I am having the same problem except my machines are fresh installs of Windows XP SP2 in an AD domain. Firewall service is completely disabled (otherwise you wouldn't get the message about not running windows nt, instead you would get cannot find computer) and I've checked DNS which is 100% functional. I've also tried unjoining/rejoining computers to the domain with no success. This started happening earlier this year out of nowhere, and every new machine I add to the domain exhibits this problem. I am unable to find any information about this anywhere. What else is there to check on a fresh install? Edited May 11, 2006 by adamb2k6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetAdd Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I had the same problem, until I turned on the firewall service and then disabled it from the “windows firewall” settings menu. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaneth Posted August 2, 2007 Share Posted August 2, 2007 What is the answer to this? I'm also experiencing it, and we disable the firewall service via group policy. No Google answers out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoic Joker Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 What is the answer to this? I'm also experiencing it, and we disable the firewall service via group policy. No Google answers out there.Really? I found several, But I really liked this one: After disabling 'NetBIOS over TCP/IP' via DHCP some of our computerscan not be managed remotely. So far, it seems only to affect computerrunning Windows XP SP2. The strange thing is that this happens not allof the time, sometimes after a reboot everything as OK and vice versa.When attempting to connect to one of the computers in question usingcomputer management (from any server or workstation) one receives thismessage:Computer \\computername cannot be managed because it is not runningWindows NT. Would you like to manage it anyway?Some other remote administration tools do not work at all.After using Wireshark it turned out the computer does identify itselfvia Server Message Block (SMB) NetServerGetInfo as'Server Type: 0x0000001' and not as 'Server Type: 0x0001003'.That means that the computer identifies itself incorrectly only as'Workstation' and not as 'Workstation', 'Server' and 'NT Workstation'.I haven't experienced the problem personally, but hopefully this will help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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