Problem with Diagnostics.Process.GetProcess*es(String machineName)

[XxLicherxX]

Hello,

I tried posting this in a different VB.net newsgroup, but never got a
response. Please let me know if there is a better group to post this
in. Thanks.

For some reason I cannot look at the processes running on one machine
on the network. I always get the following error:

System.InvalidOperationException: Couldn't get process information from

remote machine. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The network
path was not found
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor.Init()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor..ctor(String machineName)
at
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerfor manceData(String
item)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_Categ oryTable()
at
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerfor manceData(String[]
categories, Int32[] categoryIndexes)
at
System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(PerformanceCounterLib

library)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at
System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(PerformanceCounterLib

library)
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(String
machineName, Boolean isRemoteMachine)
at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProcessInfos( String
machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses(String machineName)

I don't understand how it can be telling me that the "The network path
was not found", because I can ping the machine, Map to it, Remote to it
etc.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this machine to
be invisible to this function?

Thanks

[Joseph Bittman MCSD DPM MVP]

October 14, 2005

Could you please post the server name string which generated the error
that you passed to the function? Thanks!

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Hello,

I tried posting this in a different VB.net newsgroup, but never got a
response. Please let me know if there is a better group to post this
in. Thanks.

For some reason I cannot look at the processes running on one machine
on the network. I always get the following error:

System.InvalidOperationException: Couldn't get process information from

remote machine. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The network
path was not found
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor.Init()
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceMonitor..ctor(String machineName)
at
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerfor manceData(String
item)
at System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.get_Categ oryTable()
at
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterLib.GetPerfor manceData(String[]
categories, Int32[] categoryIndexes)
at
System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(PerformanceCounterLib

library)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at
System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(PerformanceCounterLib

library)
at System.Diagnostics.NtProcessManager.GetProcessInfo s(String
machineName, Boolean isRemoteMachine)
at System.Diagnostics.ProcessManager.GetProcessInfos( String
machineName)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses(String machineName)

I don't understand how it can be telling me that the "The network path
was not found", because I can ping the machine, Map to it, Remote to it
etc.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this machine to
be invisible to this function?

Thanks

[XxLicherxX]

Hi Joseph,

Thank you for your response. I am not sure exactly what you mean by
servername... do you mean the machine name that I was using?

The string for the machine name is simply an S followed by some numbers
in the format of "sXXXX".

I am not directly passing the string as that, I have a loop that
assigns the a variable the machine name for each computer on the
network. That variable is ultimately what gets passed.

Dave