On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> Kevin Holleran wrote: > >> Long story short, I am using _winreg to do this. >> >> hKey = _winreg.OpenKey (keyPath, path, 0, _winreg.KEY_SET_VALUE) >> value,type = _winreg.QueryValueEx(hKey, item) >> if (value == wrongValue): >> _winreg.SetValue(hKey,'',_winreg.REG_SZ,correctValue) >> >> >> When I do this I receive the error: >> >> _winreg.SetValue WindowsError: [Error 5] Access Denied >> > > As an alternative, try using WMI instead. You'll have to look up the docs > a bit, but to get you started: > > <code> > import wmi > > reg = wmi.WMI ("remote-machine", namespace="default").StdRegProv > > print reg.methods.keys () > > </code> > > TJG > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Thank you for your response. I actually started with the WMI wrapper but isn't that just a wrapper that utilizes (in this case) the _winreg module? I guess my question is will Windows let me change the registry remotely? The error is a Windows permission error on the KEY_SET_VALUE. I am running this as a domain admin on a machine on the domain. Does the connection inherit the credentials I am running it under or will I need to pass those in? Or does Windows simply not let me change the registry? To me its not worth too much trouble. If I can change it in place it saves me just a little bit of work because I have to touch each machine anyway for other reasons. The big difference is that I can change all the machines I have to touch right now and get them fixed up or these folks are just going to have to wait until I get to each one. Thanks for all your help and support. Kevin
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