I\'m sorry if I caused any frustration, I didn\'t mean to.
The thing is, you shouldn\'t need to add a special scanning account for any machine as far as I know. You can use a domain account or a local account, but either one must be part of the Administrator group in order to get to that machine\'s ADMIN$ share.
All servers have a user account that came with it during the install, but usually a few administrator accounts are created for different admins. Any one of those could be used. Unfortunately if you don\'t know the credentials of any of those accounts, you would either need to add one or add yourself to the Administrator group for that domain.
Those are the only methods to allow ADMIN$ share access we know of. Perhaps Microsoft would be able to answer this, since ADMIN$ share access really does start with Windows security. We\'re simply using that exposed ADMIN$ share to make scanning much easier than needing remote WMI & registry access as well.
If I\'m not understanding, please let me know. We surely don\'t want an unhappy customer.