I am trying to verify that the usbstor driver is set to disabled on a remote machine in my domain in a vbscript but I'm having issues. I've turned to troubleshooting from the command line.
Using plain old reg query
fails.
reg query \\hostname\hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor /v start
ERROR: The network path was not found.
But if I run essentially the same command with winrs
, it works fine.
winrs -r:hostname reg query hklm\system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor /v start
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\currentcontrolset\services\usbstor
start REG_DWORD 0x4
Both commands work fine on other computers. What gives with this one?
Regardless of the computer I'm running the commands against, I open the firewall with this command:
winrs -r:hostname netsh advfirewall firewall set rule
group="Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)" new enable=yes