Impersonation with EventLog access Help!

From: Craig (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/23/04 

Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:06:08 -0800

I've seen this same question in several forms but it never really seems to get answered based on my research. Maybe I'm just missing it.

I am trying to do a simple webpage that will read the EventLog from a remote server. I have impersonation on, Windows Authentication on, IIS is set to Integrated Windows Authentication only, etc. From my machine, I can access the remote eventlog through Event Viewer fine and I can also get the eventlog data through my new web page on the local server fine. From my 2nd machine, which is logged in with the exact same credentials, if I hit the same web page on my other machine then I get an error: "Access to the registry key is denied."

        StackTrace " at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32Error(Int32 errorCode, String str)
   at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive hKey, String machineName)
   at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.Exists(String logName, String machineName)
   at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.OpenForRead()
   at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.get_EntryCount()
   at System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryCollection.get_Count()
   at ReadEvents.WebForm1.GetEventData(String strServer, DateTime startdate) in D:\MyProjects\TDWeb\ReadEvents\ReadEvents.aspx.vb:line 94" String

I have rights to read the Event Log obviously, but I'm not an administrator. I don't know what registry key it's trying to access, but I don't understand what is going on here. It's the exact same credentials just from a different machine. When I check the CurrentUser, it shows my domain and user name correctly.

Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.