title: Remote management using WMI XP PC's in a work group
body: <p>Is it not possible to remotely manage XP sp2 PC from another XP sp3 computer using WMI where both of  PC are in a work group? I have run wmimgmt.msc right click WMI control the connect to another PC. I have also used WMI Tools which I downloaded. I have Administrative account on the remote computer. I tried everything I found on the net</p>
  
  <p>including:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Remote enabled WMI on the remote computer</li>
  <li>It must not be firewall issue as I tried everything including disabling it ( the firewall).</li>
  <li>Gave my account  all permissions to the root and root\CIMV2 names paces on the remote computer</li>
  <li>Created the same administrative account( Same user name and password) on local computer (not remote) as suggested by some people on the net.</li>
  <li>and others</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>But I keep getting error like</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Access denied</li>
  <li>The RPC server is not available</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I set up security event log on the remote computer and I got the clue that the account requesting is not my account . This way I guess that it not possible to manage my PC this way but I should set up my network so that both PC's are in the same domain. But I don't want this to happen now.</p>
  
  <p>Is my guess right? If not what is wrong with me?. I am a newbie in this area.</p>