Netsh, how to open ports in windows firewall for WMI?

Question

How can you open ports in windows firewall for WMI using netsh command ?

On windows vista and newer MS OS-es you run this command

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="windows management instrumentation (wmi)" new enable=yes

What is netsh alternative for Win XP and 2003 ?

EDIT: User for WMI isn't administrator.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 06 '11 at 15:21

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Netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin

answered Apr 06 '11 at 15:21

colealtdelete

This only works if user under which WMI runs is part of administrators group. What if user is not administrator ? – Primoz Apr 06 '11 at 16:35
@Primoz So you want to use an admin account or not? I am not sure how you plan to modify the OS firewall without an admin account. At the very least, you need to elevate to an admin account once logged in using `runas` or an equivalent, so you have confused me/us here. – songei2f Apr 07 '11 at 06:11
I'll run this command as administrator. But for querying WMI i'll use non admin account. – Primoz Apr 07 '11 at 08:41
Yo need to open port 135 for dcom. – Primoz Apr 12 '11 at 18:16

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