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Are administrator credentials (for that remote machine) required to view the services of a remote computer?
I don’t know much about WMI and I imagine it would be required, but I would love to see an official answer.
As you suspect, the remote user’s account must be a member of the Administrators group on the local machine. More information is available here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa389290(v=VS.85).aspx