>-- Original Message --
>Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:58:46 -0800
>From: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Craig A Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Perl-Win32-Admin@listserv.ActiveState.com
>Subject: Re: Win32::OLE and WMI Invalid Syntax
>
>
>Craig A Dayton wrote:
>
>> Might there be an existing bug in Win32::OLE when attempting to create
>an
>> WMI Service object? I'm running perl build 815 [211909] on WinXP Pro
w/SP2
>> and the latest patches.
>>
>> The script will always fail on the first line regardless of the moniker
>> specified. Its running with administrator privileges.
>>
>> my $WMIServices = Win32::OLE->GetObject("WinMgmts:") || die;
>> my $DriveCollection = $WMIServices->InstancesOf( "Win32_DiskDrive" );
>
>This gets no error for me (B811):
>
>use Win32::OLE;
>my $WMIServices = Win32::OLE->GetObject("WinMgmts:") || die;
>
>> The error message returned is:
>>
>> Win32::OLE(0.1703) error 0x800401e4: "Invalid syntax"
>> after character 0 in "WinMgmts:" at C:\Projects\WMI\WDiskDrives.pl line
>99
>>
>> Searching the email archives, I see a number of people experienced this
>> problem a few years back, but I didn't see any resolutions posted.
>>
>> I'm able to access WMI using other tools such as WMI Object Brower, CIM
>> Studio, and wmic on the Win XP machine. So, I think WMI is configured
>> correctly.
>>
>> Has anyone else solved this problem?
>
>What build are you on ?
>
>Try just these 2 lines in a script and see if it changes :
>
>use Win32::OLE;
>my $WMI = Win32::OLE->GetObject("WinMgmts://./root/cimv2") or
> die "GetObject: " . Win32::OLE->LastError();
No problem for B815 on W2000-Pro having Win32::OLE version 0.1403.
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