WMI ERROR "RPC server unavailable"

[ciffycyclops]

Hello..
i am using WIndows XP Professional service pack 2 in my client m/c as well as in server..i diasabled the firewall in both the local and remote computer..but it shows the following error"RPC server unavailable"
whats wrong is here??what other configuration changes i have to do??
my 2nd question is
is there will be any problem if i use Windows 2003 server in my server computer???
pls help me out of this problem pls??

[Motoma]

Hello..
i am using WIndows XP Professional service pack 2 in my client m/c as well as in server..i diasabled the firewall in both the local and remote computer..but it shows the following error"RPC server unavailable"
whats wrong is here??what other configuration changes i have to do??
my 2nd question is
is there will be any problem if i use Windows 2003 server in my server computer???
pls help me out of this problem pls??

You haven't described what you are trying to do that gives you this error. Vaguely, I can say that the RPC Service can be enabled by going into Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services.

[ciffycyclops]

You haven't described what you are trying to do that gives you this error. Vaguely, I can say that the RPC Service can be enabled by going into Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services.

well ...i wrote a vb script to get the details of Win32_OperatingSystem class
of remote computer..i get this error at run time...
here is the part of my script..

strComputer = "LAB1P1"
Set objSWbemLocator = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemLocator")
Set objSWbemServices = objSWbemLocator.ConnectServer _
    (strComputer, "root\cimv2", "administrator", "password")
objWMIServices.Security_.ImpersonationLevel = 3