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Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 12:31:04 AM

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I am trying to access a computer's remote registry with VBScript. I was looking around online and I found two ways to do it. I tried both and can get neither one to work. For all examples, I know that I have valid credentials so that's not the issue.

When I try this code I get an error, I:\test.vbs(2, 1) WshShell.RegRead: Invalid root in registry key "\\10.0.106.99\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix\KB958644\Installed".

I take this to mean that I can't use RegRead to access a remote computer's registry, that I can only access local with this method. Is this correct?

When I try this code it returns NULL, I know that it should return 1 because when I use RegRead local it returns 1 (10.0.106.99 is my IP)

I can't figure out why the second code example won't work. What am I doing wrong?

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 12:58:25 AM

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I'll do some testing, but my first suggestion would be to try it with the machine name instead of the IP address.

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 1:02:52 AM

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Ok, so with some testing, the code that you posted it works fine for me with machine name or ip address either one. In that case I would say that permissions are really the issue. Remember that simply being an admin on the machine may not be sufficient. It is possible that WMI permissions may not be configured to allow remote access as well.

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 2:33:05 AM

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Did both code blocks work for you? Did you target your local machine by IP address or a remote machine? Did you explicitly provide credentials or use your logged in ones?

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 2:48:36 AM

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I ran the second code block. I used my currently logged on credentials since that is how the code is written. I targetted a remote machine.

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 3:07:24 AM

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And you got a return of 1? I don't understand it, I keep getting null.

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 3:15:07 AM

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I even tried something simpler, removing the IP address and just doing it local like this:

I *still* get null.

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 3:29:28 AM

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Remove the initial \ you have before Software

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RE: Help accessing remote registry - 10/28/2008 3:34:41 AM

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Ahh...I didn't read closely enough. I thought that you were getting an error on both. Change this line:

objReg.GetDWORDValue HKLM,"\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix\KB958644\","Installed",KEY

to this:

objReg.GetDWORDValue HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\HotFix\KB958644","Installed",KEY

and see what you get.

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