Unable to manage Remote Computer

I have recently started getting an error message from one user's computer. This user swears that they did nothing to cause this error.

When I try to use Computer Management it allows me to see this user's computer but I am not able to use anything. If I wast to use Services it give me an error of: "Unable to open Service Control Manager Database on (Username). Error 5: Access is Denied."

I have searched Microsoft's Knowledgebase and there is nothing that I have found for this exace error.

Any and all help will be greately appreciated.

Marcus

The account you use to logon to your computer must be a member of the local
Administrators group on the remote machine. In a domain environment, the
domain admins group is/should be automatically added to the local
administrators group when a workstation joins a domain. If the user logs
onto his local machine instead of the domain, the domain admins group will
not be able to remotely manage the machine.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Marcus D" <Marcus D@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:064AA29A-A424-4FBF-81E6-903B693B285D@microsoft.com...
> I have recently started getting an error message from one user's computer.
This user swears that they did nothing to cause this error.
>
> When I try to use Computer Management it allows me to see this user's
computer but I am not able to use anything. If I wast to use Services it
give me an error of: "Unable to open Service Control Manager Database on
(Username). Error 5: Access is Denied."
>
> I have searched Microsoft's Knowledgebase and there is nothing that I have
found for this exace error.
>
> Any and all help will be greately appreciated.
>
> Marcus