Yep, it comes up immediately.
-Lana
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: RE: Can't Connect to Remote PC with Event Viewer
> DDNs, name resolutions. If you goto start | run |type \\severname does
> that find the server??
>
> Did not read much of what you read in a rush out the door.. Good luck
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: L. Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:35 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Can't Connect to Remote PC with Event Viewer
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> I am new to this list, and I am hoping someone can help me with a little
> annoying problem I am having. I cannot seem to connect from "Server A"
> to a remote "Server B" with Event Viewer to view the Event log. Both
> machines are Win2K SP2, no AD, it is an NT 4 Domain. When I type the
> remote computer Name or IP address in the Select Computer Box, I get the
> following message.. "Unable to connect to computer "Servername". The
> error was: The network Path is not found."
>
> Funny thing is, I can connect to this PC in Computer Management, I can
> stop and start services, view the shares, Local Users and Groups, but if
> I click on Event Viewer, I get the same message. I can ping the IP, the
> name, map a drive and everything, so the connectivity is definitely
> there. Server B can view Server A's event log, but ServerA cannot
> connect to Server B. Also on Server A I can connect to all the other NT4
> machine's event logs, and I have also VPN'd to a home machine, and was
> able to connect to that event log running on Win2K SP2 also. I have
> tried this with my account which is a member of Domain Admins, as well
> as the Domain Admin Account itself with same results. Is there some
> "remote access" type service that's needed, or policy or something that
> may have been configured on Server B that doesn't allow remote access to
> the event log? I've searched KB for this error also and came up empty.
> Server A is my workstation, so I really would like to be able to view
> all the other server logs from my desk. Any ideas are greatly
> appreciated.
>
> TIA,
> -Lana
>
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