Changing Remote Registry

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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)
>                
> 
> 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.