Remote Access to Disk Manager

ccnpninja

Hi,

I have a Virtual WinXPpro Machine (VMware). I connected to Computer Management snap-in from the guest machine to the host machine.

It worked fine. But When I click on "Disk management" Windows tells me the following:

You do not have access rights to Logical Disk Manager on Laptop

any idea ?

ps: Laptop is the name of my host machine.

sprkymrk

Admin rights on the host machine are required. How did you log into the guest machine?

ccnpninja

Here is a review of the situation:

Machine A: is my physical box (my laptop).
Machine B: is a virtual machine . I run it on machine A (by using VMware).

Now I am logged on to machine B. And I want to connect to machine A's Disk Manager from machine B.

The problem is that Windows displays the message I mentioned earlier.

I hope you have a clear vision of the issue now

sprkymrk

shadowman724 wrote:

Here is a review of the situation:

Machine A: is my physical box (my laptop).
Machine B: is a virtual machine . I run it on machine A (by using VMware).

Now I am logged on to machine B. And I want to connect to machine A's Disk Manager from machine B.

The problem is that Windows displays the message I mentioned earlier.

I hope you have a clear vision of the issue now

When you logged into Machine B, was it a local account or domain account? And that same account, is it an admin account on Machine A? If you logged into Machine B as MachineB\Administrator, is it the same password as the MachineA\Administrator account? Just because you are logged into Machine B as an admin, it doesn't necessarily mean you are an admin on Machine A. Hope that's more clear than my frist response.

ccnpninja

When you logged into Machine B, was it a local account or domain account? And that same account, is it an admin account on Machine A?

I logged on to machine B with a local user account with limited privilieges.

If you logged into Machine B as MachineB\Administrator, is it the same password as the MachineA\Administrator account?

I executed Computer Management snap-in with admin credentials (run as...). and this admin password is different from the admin password of machine A.

Just because you are logged into Machine B as an admin, it doesn't necessarily mean you are an admin on Machine A.

I absolutely agree with you on that.

sprkymrk

Okay, that explains it. You need to use Computer Management as an admin on whatever machine you want to manage. So in order to manage computer A from computer B, you need to use an account that has admin rights on Computer A. Best way is with a domain account, but if you are in a workgroup I think setting the administrator password the same on both computers you should be good to go.