Using Win32::OLE... 
use Win32::OLE ('in');

...

@host = ($server,"Root/default",$user,$password);
$localWMI = Win32::OLE->new('WbemScripting.SWbemLocator'); 
$WMI = $localWMI->ConnectServer(@host); 

$registry = $WMI->Get("StdRegProv") or die "Failed to get registry.";

$strPath='SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName\ComputerName';
$strValue = "ComputerName";
print $strPath;
$return=$registry->GetStringValue(
2147483650, $strPath, $strValue, $result
);
print "\n$strValue:($return,$result)\n";

my $err = Win32::OLE->LastError();
if ($err == 0) {print "Successful!\n";}
else {print $err;}

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You think it would be in $result, don't you?
I always get...
ComputerName:(0,)
Successful!

So there is no OLE error... and according to other scripts I've seen, everybody expects the query to be put in that variable... If I change the path statements/reg key name, I get funky error codes (161, -2147217403, etc.), so I know it's READING the value right.... but where does it PUT the value???

edited: Thu Mar 27 14:20:32 2003 by jeffa - appended "(problem with Win32::OLE)" to title

In reply to Where's the result??? (problem with Win32::OLE) by jpavel

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