Access to Windows 7 log from a remote machine

Question

One of my problem is that I often cannot find the right information/documentation for a certain thing. For this question: the Content Provider "syntax" for google applications, for example:

• gmail (=> content://gmail-ls/XXX)
• chat (=> content://im/chats)

I have seen these on certain places, but I don't know where it's documented. Where do I look this up?

Solution

By default when trying to carry out tasks that require elevated privileges (such as this one) you need to connect to the remote Windows 7 system using the credentials of the explicit local Administrator account on that system, or the credentials of a member of the Domain Administrators group if its part of a domain. UAC prevents other users, even members of the local Administrators group, doing this. What account are you using on the XP Pro machine to authenticate the connection?

This article on MSDN about UAC explains this in detail.

Comments

[Michaël]

developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/…

[Helvick]

No using a member of the Administrators group is not sufficient, you have to use The Administrator's account. You can disable\change this particular UAC behavior, or disable UAC completely to work around this. The reason is to do with automatic elevation which is active for The Administrator but not for members of the Administrators Group.

[Lalit Poptani]

Suggestion required in this question, please have a look.

[Carl K.]

Good to know. I am in development on an app that reads data through the above mentioned method. So, I was wondering from where the previous developer had this information. Also: somehow this functionality stopped working => probably after the last update!