Hi,

I have trouble to call WMI from the we service.

The code is like the following:
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using System;

using System.Collections;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Web;

using System.Web.Services;

using System.Text;

using System.Management;

using System.Configuration;



namespace MyWMI

{

    /// <summary>

    /// Summary description for ADSSrv.

    /// </summary>

    ///

    public class MyWMI : System.Web.Services.WebService

    {

        public MyWMI()

        {

            //CODEGEN: This call is required by the ASP.NET Web Services Designer

            InitializeComponent();



        }



        #region Component Designer generated code



        //Required by the Web Services Designer

        private IContainer components = null;



        /// <summary>

        /// Required method for Designer support - do not modify

        /// the contents of this method with the code editor.

        /// </summary>

        private void InitializeComponent()

        {

        }



        /// <summary>

        /// Clean up any resources being used.

        /// </summary>

        protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )

        {

            if(disposing && components != null)

            {

                components.Dispose();

            }

            base.Dispose(disposing);

        }



        #endregion





        [WebMethod]

        public string MyTest()

        {

            try

            {

                ManagementClass someClass = new ManagementClass("\\\\.\\root\\someclassname");

                ManagementObject objDevice = someClass.CreateInstance();



                // set device properties

                objDevice["Name"] = "sample1.example.com";

                objDevice["Description"] = "Sample device";



                // create device instance

                objDevice.Put();

                return "success";

            }

            catch(Exception ex)

            {

                return ex.ToString();

            }

        }

             }

}




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I run this web service with WMI on the same server with Administrator privilage and I also add user ASPNET to the Administrator group.

But the web service return the following error message:
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System.Management.ManagemetException:
Access denied at System.Management.ManagementException.ThrowWithExt endedInfo(ManagementStat atus errorCode) System.Management.ManagementObject.Put(PutOptions options) at System.Management.ManagementObject.Put() at MyTest()
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Does anyone know what's wrone with the code?

Thanks,

  Actually, it is more likely that this code is executing with the privlages of IUSR_MACHINENAME, IWAM_MACHINENAME, or some other such account. The default behavior when you create a connection object with a 0 object constructor is to instantiate with the credentials of the creating process.
   Try something like this ( assuming that the variables strUsername and strPassword have been set to the credentials you want to use; you can hard code these, or pass them in as parameters to the web service ... perhaps from a form on the web page)...

   ...
   ConnectionOptions oConn = new ConnectionOptions();
   oConn.Username = strUsername;
   oConn.Password = strPassword;
   System.Management.ManagementScope oMs = new System.Management.ManagementScope("\\\\" + strComputername + "\\root\\cimv2", oConn);

   ...


Regards,
Meredith Shaebanyan