Symantec Antivirus push updates to Windows XP?

[FOBSIDE]

I don't know if this is a problem with Windows XP Home, XP Pro, or both. I don't have XP Pro right now to test with at the moment. I am trying to push updates from a Windows 2000 Pro machine to a bunch of different clients. The machine pushes updates fine to the Windows 2000 machine, but when I try to push to the Windows XP machine, I get a login popup that says:

you must log in as administrator to the windows domain that the client computer (ComputerName) belongs to

Everything is on a workgroup with the same workgroup name, although I don't believe that matters. I've created the client username and password on the machine pushing the updates just to see if that made a difference, but it doesn't seem to work.

Has anyone else encountered this before and could possibly help me out? Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Thor86]

Try disabling the built-in firewall options in WinXP or use the File/Printer sharing exception.

 

[FOBSIDE]

Firewall is off. Any other suggestions?

 

[Wizkid]

Try accessing the machine with \\computer\c$ if that doesn't work then it could be your problem. Possibly permissions or shares. I'm not sure if XP Home even creates those admin shares by default... you could try creating a c$ share and see if that solves the problem.

Firewall definitely has to be off though, also watch out for third-party firewalls.

 

[nweaver]

xp home does not create the c$ share, and lacks the RPC stuff for remote managment. that Pro has (can't use ps tools on home)

 

[FOBSIDE]

So, is this going to be a complete waste of time or can I add these features to XP Home? I know I can add certain sharing features to Home to make it more like Professional, but I don't know about this. Any ideas?

 

[Thor86]

Guess you are out of luck with XP home edition. You will most likely have to install the Symantec AV client manually and use Unmanaged solution.