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ActiveDisk Wiper

How to Configure Network

Network configuration is available for Professional verison only.

 

User Defined Console

Allows you to configure MMC Snap-In to access remote computer, see its drives and clean them up remotely.

You can change computer you connected to for the current Snap-In, or add another Snap-In to the current MMC Console.

 

To change computer you currently connected to for the Snap-In, open Network tab in Snap-In's properties:

  1. Start Active@ Disk Wiper console and select the Active Disk Wiper node.
  2. Open Properties window by one of the following methods:
    • Click the Properties button on the toolbar
    • Right-click the Active Disk Wiper node, and then click Properties  from the context menu
  3. Go to the Network tab and configure options (see below)
  4. Select Snap-In node that you configured and click Refresh button on a toolbar to connect to the remote comuter and see its drives, or save and re-load Console itself
  5. If something is not configured properly, error messages appear (see Important section below), and you can go to Snap-Ins properties and change Network settings again

 

To add another Snap-In connected to the remote computer to the current MMC Console:

  1. Start Active@ Disk Wiper console, or run MMC.exe and create new console
  2. Press Ctrl+M, or select Add/Remove Snap-in... from the Console menu
  3. Click Add... button to add new Snap-In
  4. Select Active@ Disk Wiper in the list of available Snap-Ins
  5. Click Add button once more, and Active@ Disk Wiper configuration Wizard starts
  6. At the Registration dialog enter, or verify that registration information is correct, and click Next
  7. At the Network dialog enter proper configuration options (see below) to access remote computer and click Finish
  8. Click Close to close Add New Snap-In Dialog
  9. Click OK to close Add/Remove Snap-in...  dialog
  10. Click on a newly created Snap-In node to connect and work with remote computer
  11. If something is not configured properly, error messages appear (see Important section below), and you can go to Snap-Ins properties and change Network settings to solve the problem (see section above).
  12. After you finishes new Snap-In configuration, you can save Console for the future use (menu item Save in Console menu).

 

Network Configuration Options:

  1. Connect to Machine - whether you will be connected to Local or Remote computer.
    • Local you will connect and see drives on a local machine
    • Remote type machine name to connect to, and after Refresh command you will see remote drives
  2. This Machine DCOM Configuration - you can run standard Windows utility DCOMCNFG.EXE where you can specify how instance of Active@ Disk Wiper on your computer will be accessible by other users in the network. See Understanding DCOM for more information.
  3. Remote Access - you can specify which account will be used to connect to remote instances of Active@ Disk Wiper:
    • Relies on DCOM configuration no explicit account is specified. Everything depends on how remote COM server is configured
    • Log On as User type user name and password you want to use to connect to the remote server.

 

 

Computer Management Console

The settings described above are applied for the Console supplied with product installation or you've created manually.

Another way to connect to remote computer and cleanup its drives is using standard Computer Management console.

You can go this way only if both operating systems on your and remote computer support  Computer Management  (i.e. both computers have Windows 2000/XP installed).

To connect and manage remote computers:

  1. Start Computer Management  console by one of the following methods:
    • Right click My Computer desktop icon and click Manage menu item
    • Run "Computer Management" from "Administrative Tools" folder in the menu or Control Panel.
  2. Right click the Computer Management node and click "Connect to another computer..." menu item or select it from the Action menu
  3. Select one of available computers, or type its name in the Select Computer dialog and click Ok
  4. Active@ Disk Wiper icon appears under System Tools node in Computer Management. Expand Active@ Disk Wiper node and perform cleanup on a remote computer.

 

Important

  • If Active@ Disk Wiper is installed and registered on the remote computer, you have an access to the remote computer and DCOM is configured properly, you should be able to perform all procedures the same way as you work locally.
  • If you mistyped remote computer name, or software is not installed properly, most likely you'll get a COM error The RPC Server is not Available.
  • If you do not have enough priviledges on a remote computer, most likely you'll get an error Access denied.
  • If your did not turn off DCOM security (its turned on by default) you should configure it properly, otherwise you'll get an errors and warnings like:
      • Access Denied
      • DCOM security settings do not allow this process to get notifications from the remote server
    See DCOM Configuration section for more information on how to configure DCOM properly. For testing purposes, you can try to turn off DCOM security temporarily, by setting on both computers Default Authentication Level to (None), and adding Everyone to Default Access and Launch permissions

Note

  • For more information on how to configure DCOM see DCOM Configuration section.
  • For more information on how to create and configure MMC Consoles, Add/Remove Snap-Ins see MMC Consoles section, or Microsoft Management Console Help.

 

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