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BUG: RegConnectRegistry on Windows NT Returns ERROR_BAD_NETPATH

Article ID: 194928

Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006

Microsoft Win32 Application Programming Interface, when used with:
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 5
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

This article was previously published under Q194928

SYMPTOMS

When the ANSI version of the RegConnectRegistry() API is called from Microsoft Windows NT to connect to a remote registry on a Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98 computer, error code 53 (ERROR_BAD_NETPATH) is returned.

RESOLUTION

To avoid this problem use RegConnectRegistryW(), the Unicode version of the API, to connect to remote Windows 95 or Windows 98 registry databases from Windows NT.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This bug has been fixed in MIcrosoft Windows 2000 and later versions.

REFERENCES

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

193463 HOWTO: Troubleshoot Remote Registry Access on Windows 95/98

Keywords: kbbug kbregistry kbapi kbkernbase kbpending KB194928