I am getting the following error when trying to connect to another computer from the Task Scheduler on Windows 7:
"The remote computer was not found."
The computer that I am trying to connect to is definitely on the network as I can ping it and browse its shared folders in Windows Explorer.
Note that I get the same error message when trying to perform the same operation from Performance Monitor. This suggests that I need to something to enable remote connection to the Task Scheduler. I am not very experienced with Windows administration and I am not sure where to look.
To give a bit more context, I want to use the Task Scheduler to automatically start Perf Mon on a few machines at my company. I'd like to setup the Task Scheduler remotely.
Does anyone know what I need to do?
Best Answer
You have to make sure that the account is in the local administrators group. If you are the domain administrator, or member of the domain admins group, then you need to ad DOMAIN\Domain Admins to the Local Administrators group on the remote machine. I've had this issue before. Hope this helps.
Side note, you cannot be using an account that does not have a password to access these management features on a remote client.