Registry access rights

I have a problem with registry access on NT 4.0 machines that are logged in as users on a primary domain controller.

The following code should read an entry from HK_LOCAL_MACHINE and return a default value, if the key is not present - the key is then inserted with the default value.

function GetHKLocal(Key0, KeyRest, Value:string; DefValue:string):string;
var
  Reg : TRegistry;
begin
  { Read INI data from registry }
  Reg:=TRegistry.Create;
  Reg.RootKey:=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE;
  try
    Reg.OpenKey('\'+Key0, false); { Users may only insert keys above that level!      }
    Reg.OpenKey(KeyRest, true);   { Otherwise WinNt will raise an Registry Open Error }
    if Reg.ValueExists(Value) then
      Result:=Reg.ReadString(Value)
    else begin
      Result:=DefValue;
      Reg.WriteString(Value, DefValue);
    end;
  finally
    Reg.free;
  end;
end;

called by

  SomeString:=GetHKLocal('SOFTWARE', 'MYCompany\MYProgram\AValue', 'Default');

This runs fine under 95, NT4.0 (local), NT4.0(logged into workgroup) but on some (not all!) PCs it fails with an IO-Error on the Reg.WriteString method. The users have rights to access/edit the registry - I checked that via RegEdit.EXE.

Any ideas?


Thank you, Roadrunner.