Editing Registry through Active Directory?

[DamnRock]

Hey guys... I am trying to figure out where to start...

Here's the deal... I want to automatically (programmatically) get certain key values from the registry on a bunch of different computers... I know the path to the keys on each machine... I know the names of each computer on the network... its an HKLM key... I also know all the api calls to get registry values ... but I've only done it so far on the local machine... never over a network...

so, I just need a nudge in the right direction on how to do this...the program I write can be run from the server, so it has active directory setup... or it can be run from any pc on the network, with admin rights.

What to do, what to do?

Rock

[Sastraxi]

Have an instance of your program running on each computer. Then, your computer can use Winsock to send commands to each computer's instance of the application, which will retrieve the value from the local registry and save it back.

It's doubtful that Windows will allow remote computers to view the registry.

[jpritchard]

remote registry read access?

try this...

the clever bit is not my code - so credit to someone else (I appologise I cannot remember where I got this..)

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U will need some privilige on the machines U are connecting to.
If you are a lan admin this will work..

(really this is programatically the same as regedit and using the menupath File->Connect to a Netowrk Registry....)

zip(workbook enclosed)

cheers, AJP