This peace of code helps you retrieves all the namespaces that are on your pc.
All the namespaces are printed to the screen and are stored in the array @nameSpaces.
(Note that the stored namespaces are using a single backslash, which should be replaced by a double backslash in order to connect to it.)

The code works for me and I tested it on Windows XP SP2.

(Thanks to the Microsoft Scripting Guys for providing the vb code).
#!/usr/local/perl

use Win32::OLE('in');
use strict;

# Variables
my $stepOk     = 1;
my $errorMsg   = "";
my $wmiService = "";
my $computer   = "."; # Computer to connect to: . = local host
my @nameSpaces = ();

enumNameSpaces("root");

sub enumNameSpaces
{
  my $nameSpaceStr = shift;
  
  print $nameSpaceStr."\n";
  push(@nameSpaces,$nameSpaceStr);
  
  $wmiService = Win32::OLE->GetObject("winmgmts:\\\\".$computer."\\".$
+nameSpaceStr);
  ($stepOk = 0) unless $wmiService;
  if(! $stepOk)
  {
    $errorMsg = "Unable to open wmi services";
    print $errorMsg."\n";
  }
  
  my $subDevices = $wmiService->InstancesOf("__NAMESPACE");
  
  foreach my $subDevProp ( in( $subDevices ) )
  {
    enumNameSpaces($nameSpaceStr."\\".$subDevProp->{Name});
  }
}

# Scripted by jschollen
# Thanks to the Microsoft Scripting Guys

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