Remote Registry

Question

I know this has been talked about a few times about remote registry access, but I cannot find any good examples on how to implement this.

I did find http://www.codeproje

Answer 1

You can start from this article: RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey. But you user account should be allowed to operate with registry on this remote machine! And impersonation is not the best way to resolve your task. LogonUser creates new security context on that machine where it is called. This means that user with permissions to access remote registry also should have permission to logon locally. This is very strong requirement.

I propose alternative solution: Before accessing registry you can use WNetAddConnection2 to create connection to IPC$ share on remote computer using credentials of user that have proper rights to access registry. Don't forget to cancel the connection when you finish your work with registry.