[RESOLVED] [2008] WMI Access Denied

I am trying to write some code to read the application pools from a remote machine and then eventually I will want to recycle one of the pools. I am trying to use the following code to retrieve the application pools, however I am getting an Access Denied error on the For Each line. There is no inner exception, so that is all I have to work with.

Code:

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Dim connection As New ConnectionOptions
        connection.Username = "administrator"
        connection.Password = "password"
       
        Dim scope As New ManagementScope( _
            "\\SOMEMACHINE\root\MicrosoftIISv2", connection)
        scope.Connect()

        Dim query As New ObjectQuery( _
            "SELECT * FROM IIsApplicationPool")

        Dim searcher As New ManagementObjectSearcher(scope, query)

        For Each queryObj As ManagementObject In searcher.Get()


            MessageBox.Show(String.Format("Name: {0}", queryObj("Name")))
        Next

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The account I am trying with right now is the box administrator account.
The machine is not part of a domain and it is windows 2003 server with the firewall off.
I know the username and password are correct, because if they are not I get an error on the Scope.Connect() line.

I have tried the suggestion at the bottom of this page, but it did not help:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20010614a.asp

I even rebooted after that change, just to be sure, but still no luck.

Any one have any other ideas? I know it is probably some silly security setting, I just don't know where else to look.

Negative0,

Does this help?, its similar to your issue http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;875605

This also seems to appear as a potential fix on a few MSDN pages;

Connection.Impersonation = ImpersonationLevel.Impersonate
Connection.EnablePrivileges = True

Thanks for responding BullDog. With regards to your posts:

I don't have the firewall enabled on either machine. I tried playing with some of the DCOM settings, but I am running as a box admin on my local machine and I have box admin rights on the remote machine with the account I specified. After making the DCOM changes on my local (and remote) machines, I still got nothing.

I tried the Impersonation and EnablePrivilegs lines as well, but I am still getting access denied.

Got it! After reading this article, I needed to set the Authentication Level:

Code:

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connection.Authentication = AuthenticationLevel.PacketPrivacy

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