how to access vista system remotely using vb.net ?

Question

I tried to access xp to vista system manually, its working,but programatically how to do it ?

like,by selecting view workgroup computers in network tasks and click one computer in workgroup computers.it shows connect to "system name" window, contains username and password if i enter username and password.the seleted computer will able to access in registry otherwise i can't able to access that selected system.

how to do this manual process in vb.net coding? is it possible or not?

please help me

Answer 1

You can use OpenRemoteBaseKey to access the remote registry but before that you need to impersonate an account with the correct access rights using WindowsIdentity.Impersonate.

The following MSDN link contains a complete sample to login as a different user programmatically: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.principal.windowsimpersonationcontext.aspx