I'm still not clear on what the issue was/is, but here is what I did to get the scan/patching to work.
The ports were allowed - still failed
Turned off AV - still failed
Turned off console Firewall - still failed
Created a local user on laptop with admin rights, set agent credentials with new user - success!
What puzzles me is that the credential checks were all ok with the domain user accounts that were tried.
Dan
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