Detect Existence of Client32

Keywords:    Detect Existence of Client32

Question

I am looking for a quick and easy way to query the registry to find out if Client32 is installed on a particular PC. Any ideas??

Answer:

Look for some of the following information in the local machine registry: REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NOVELLNP]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NOVELLNP\NetworkProvider] "Name"="Novell_NetWare" "ProviderPath"="novellnp.dll" "Description"="Novell NetWare Provider for Windows 95/98" "NetID"=hex:00,00,03,00 "CallOrder"=hex:00,00,00,20 "GroupFcn"="NWGROUP.DLL,NWGetUserGroups" "NovellDirectoryServices"="Novell Directory Services" "NetWareServers"="NetWare Servers"

I think that looking for [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NOVELLNP] is probably the most accurate method at this time. Of course, if the installation of Client32 is damaged in some way then you could be missing files or registry entries and thus might get a false positive or negative result for your testing depending on the method that you use to detect Client32.

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Article ID:   W14469

Filename:   Detect Existence of Client32.txt