Error : System.IO.IOException: the network path was not found

Question

when i am executing following code it results an error please help me to resolve this.

 class MySample
{

    public static void Main()
    {


string eventLogName = "Security";

string sourceName = "BTHUSB";

string machineName = "v.i.com";

EventLog eventLog;

eventLog = new EventLog();

eventLog.Log = eventLogName;

eventLog.Source = sourceName;

eventLog.MachineName = machineName;
foreach (EventLogEntry log in eventLog.Entries.Cast<EventLogEntry>().Reverse())// Entries.Cast<EventLogEntry>().Reverse
{
 Console.WriteLine(") Entry type: {0} , Category: {1},  Data: {2}, ID: {3}, Source: {4} \n", log.EntryType, log.TimeWritten, log.EventID, log.InstanceId, log.Source);
}
}
}

Error is ,

  Unhandled Exception: System.IO.IOException: The network path was not found.

  at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.Win32ErrorStatic(Int32 errorCode, String str)
  at Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey.OpenRemoteBaseKey(RegistryHive hKey, String ma chineName)
  at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.GetEventLogRegKey(String machine, Boolean writ able)
  at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.Exists(String logName, String machineName)
 at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.OpenForRead(String currentMachineName)
  at System.Diagnostics.EventLog.GetEntryAtNoThrow(Int32 index)
  at System.Diagnostics.EventLogEntryCollection.EntriesEnumerator.MoveNext()
  at System.Linq.Enumerable.<CastIterator>d__aa`1.MoveNext()
    at System.Linq.Buffer`1..ctor(IEnumerable`1 source)    at System.Linq.Enumerable.<ReverseIterator>d__99`1.MoveNext()
 at event.MySample.Main() in E:\.net prep\.net examples\event\event\Program.cs :line 42

please help me to resolve this, in a machine name field how to enter the remote machine, when it have v.i.com , but that system name is v only.

Answer 1

If you look at your stack trace you can see the failure happens trying to open the remote registry key.

This means that the Remote Registry service is not running on the target machine. On v.i.com, open the services control panel (services.msc) and start the service called Remote Registry.

This service is normally set to have the startup type of Manual so is not started automatically. If you need to configure or access the event log remotely often, set this to start Automatic so that it's always available.