On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:46 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> Kevin Holleran wrote: > >> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:11 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com<mailto: >> pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote: >> >> Kevin Holleran wrote: >> >> Good morning, >> >> I fear the answer to this is that I just cannot do this.... >> >> I wrote a python script that goes out to a bunch of remote >> machines and queries the registry for some values. Effectively, >> there have been some software upgrades that have been done as >> the need arose but we need to do them across the organization >> now. There are three, and the script checks all three and >> returns the values. One of these just needs to be a registry >> change as it is a client server application that the server was >> upgraded and the clients need a change to a registry value to work. >> >> 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) >> >> > Hmm. If you're querying with (hKey, item), shouldn't you also be setting > with (hKey, item), not (hKey,'')? > > > When I do this I receive the error: >> >> _winreg.SetValue WindowsError: [Error 5] Access Denied >> >> >> I am running this from my machine as a domain admin, connecting >> to the remote machine which is also on the domain. >> I am connecting to the remote registry with: >> >> keyPath = _winreg.ConnectRegistry(r"\\" + >> ipAddress,_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) >> >> >> Thanks for any help. >> >> What is 'ipAddress'? Is it an actual IP address? The documentation says >> it should be the computer name. >> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >> >> >> >> Thanks for the response. From my experience that does not matter. It is >> an actual IP address. I can connect to the registry fine, its just the >> writing. I read that value and other values. It errors on the >> _winreg.KEY_SET_VALUE. I am wondering if Windows just will not let the >> registry be changed remotely in this way or if there is something else I >> have to do. >> >> -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Sorry, that line is correct, I was removing specific information relevant to our infrastructure. That is the valuename. The error I am getting is: Traceback (most recent call last): File "script.py", line 53, in <module> value,type = _winreg.QueryValueEx(hKey,item) WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied But the real error is here I believe: hKey = _winreg.OpenKey (keyPath, path, 0, _winreg.KEY_SET_VALUE) When I just do a: hKey = _winreg.OpenKey (keyPath, path, 0, _winreg.KEY_READ) I receive no errors. Thanks.
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