accessing a remote registry with local credentials (of the remote machine) on the domain

Question

The title is a bit long but i will try to explain: i\'m trying to connect from one machine (which is connected to a domain) to another machine which also connected to a domain b

Answer 1

I found a nice class for that purpose here at SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1197430/4547223

I wrote a quick sample with this class with success:

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using Microsoft.Win32;
using System.Net;
...

string hostName = 192.168.1.1;

using (new NetworkConnection(@"\\" + hostName + @"\admin$", new NetworkCredential(@"ad\administrator", "TopSecret")))
{
    using (RegistryKey remoteHklm = RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive.LocalMachine, hostName))
    {
        using (RegistryKey serviceKey = remoteHklm.OpenSubKey("System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services", true))
        {
            if (serviceKey != null)
            {
                foreach (string key in serviceKey.GetSubKeyNames())
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(key);
                }
            }
        }

    }
}