Not possible to read from windows registry on extender?

[PLUCKYHD]

I have some java code some windows registry code. It works fine on the server and clients but doesn't on the extenders. I would think the extender should get the same value as the server but I am getting no return for the extender is there anyway around this issue?

I guess worst case scenerio I could write the server read and make the extenders use that read but would require server running before any extenders not ideal.

[GKusnick]

Are you talking about extenders in standalone mode? You're not running under Windows in that mode, hence no registry to read.

If you're talking about extender mode, i.e. connected to a SageTV server, then your code is running on the server and reading the server's registry. If you're having issues with that, maybe you're trying to read from keys that don't exist. But in that case I have no idea what you mean about starting the server before the extenders, since your code executes on the server.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

Are you talking about extenders in standalone mode? You're not running under Windows in that mode, hence no registry to read.

If you're talking about extender mode, i.e. connected to a SageTV server, then your code is running on the server and reading the server's registry. If you're having issues with that, maybe you're trying to read from keys that don't exist. But in that case I have no idea what you mean about starting the server before the extenders, since your code executes on the server.

Sorry wasn't very clear it is extender mode. The registry key exist on the server as if I run the code on the server it returns correctly in this case It Is a path to a mapped drive, but if I run it on the extender I get a wierd ip address returned instead of the path. To be precise it is returning 127.0.0.1 which is not even a path in my domain.

[gplasky]

127.0.0.1 is the local machine which would be the server. Wouldn't the path need to be UNC and not mapped?

Gerry

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by gplasky

127.0.0.1 is the local machine which would be the server. Wouldn't the path need to be UNC and not mapped?

Gerry

Yeah the path in the registry is a unc path but for some reason when the extender gets the value that is what it returns but from the server ui it returns fine.

[GKusnick]

You're sure you're reading the identical registry path in both cases? If it's a subkey of HKEY_CURRENT_USER then it may not be the same, depending on which user you're logged in as. So for instance SageTVService may be logged in as one user and get one value from that key, whereas the SageTV UI process may be logged in as a different user with a different value.

And to state the obvious, code with Windows registry dependencies won't work on Mac or Linux systems. So be aware that you're excluding those users by introducing such dependencies.

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by GKusnick

You're sure you're reading the identical registry path in both cases? If it's a subkey of HKEY_CURRENT_USER then it may not be the same, depending on which user you're logged in as. So for instance SageTVService may be logged in as one user and get one value from that key, whereas the SageTV UI process may be logged in as a different user with a different value.

And to state the obvious, code with Windows registry dependencies won't work on Mac or Linux systems. So be aware that you're excluding those users by introducing such dependencies.

Didn't think of the user situation that is it will have to work around that some way thanks

and as for the other yeah this is for mymovies addin which is windows exclusive unfortunetly so Linux and mac won't be supported.