Remote Win32 Registry confusion?

[Bjorn Pettersen]

benjamin schollnick <bscholln at mac.com> wrote in
news:251020030643384444%bscholln at mac.com: 

> Folks,
> 
> I am having difficulty with *reading* the registry from a remote
> Windows box...

I've only done this once, a long time ago, and the ability has been severly 
limited since then by an MS service pack (you should have seen the security 
admin's face when I changed his path variable remotely without a trace ;-)
 
> 1) I need to impersonate a different user name & password, then the
> user I
> am currently logged in as.
>    (i.e. access the registry as a administrator)

You'll at least need to log in to the domain to get your security token, 
then use that to impersonate that user.
 
> 2) The registry to be examined is on a different machine...

Verify that this isn't turned off by either that machine or a group policy.

> 3) I just need the key entry returned....

key entry == value(?)

-- bjorn