RegOpenKeyEx fails on Win 2003 Itanium

[sarab]

Hi ,
I am having problems accessing the registry using RegOpenKeyEx(). It
returns 2.
The keys are related to MS SQL Server 2000.
Do i need some permissions to access the registry?.

please help.

regards
-sarab

 

[Bronek Kozicki]

I am having problems accessing the registry using RegOpenKeyEx(). It
returns 2.
The keys are related to MS SQL Server 2000.
Do i need some permissions to access the registry?.

probably answer is "yes". You may run regedit and check it for yourself.


B.

 

[sarab]

The permissions are there.
It seems one needs a extra \\ in the begining of the path to access the key.

For e.g to access SOFTWARE\Microsoft SQL
Server\SALES\MSSQLServer\CurrentVersion where the key name is
CurrentVersion, one has to use
\\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft SQL Server\SALES\MSSQLServer\CurrentVersion

This works but i am not sure if they would make such a change.

-sarab