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WMI EnableStatic not work in Vista



 
 
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Old August 30th 06, 02:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
Eric
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Default WMI EnableStatic not work in Vista

I have a simple function to switch network from DHCP to static, the function
works ok in XP, but not in Vista, the return code is 0 that scussed, but
nothing happend when I check by ipconfig, any help is welcome, I am using
VS.Net 2003 + latest SDK.
Thanks,
Eric

int SetStaticIP()
{
IWbemLocator *pLocator = NULL;
IWbemServices *pNamespace = 0;
IWbemClassObject *pClass = NULL;
IWbemClassObject *pMethod = NULL;
IWbemClassObject *pInInst = NULL;
IWbemClassObject *pOutInst = NULL;


// Strings needed later
BSTR className = SysAllocString(L"Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration ");
BSTR methodName = SysAllocString(L"EnableStatic");
BSTR namespacePath = SysAllocString(L"root\\cimv2");


// Create WbemLocator Instance
HRESULT hr;
hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_WbemLocator, 0, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
IID_IWbemLocator, (LPVOID *) &pLocator);


// Using the WbemLocator, connect to the namespace
hr = pLocator-ConnectServer(namespacePath, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0,
NULL, NULL, &pNamespace);


hr = CoSetProxyBlanket(
pNamespace, // Indicates the proxy to set
RPC_C_AUTHN_WINNT, // RPC_C_AUTHN_xxx
RPC_C_AUTHZ_NONE, // RPC_C_AUTHZ_xxx
NULL, // Server principal name
RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_CALL, // RPC_C_AUTHN_LEVEL_xxx
RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_IMPERSONATE, // RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_xxx
NULL, // client identity
EOAC_NONE // proxy capabilities
);

if (FAILED(hr))
{
pNamespace-Release();
pLocator-Release();
CoUninitialize();
return 0; // Program has failed.
}
// Get the class object
hr = pNamespace-GetObject(className, 0, NULL, &pClass, NULL);


// Get the method we want to use in this class
hr = pClass-GetMethod(methodName, 0, &pMethod, NULL);


// Spawn an instance of the method so we can set it up (parameters)
hr = pMethod-SpawnInstance(0, &pInInst);


// EnableStatic() expects to receive the args in an array
BSTR ArgNameIP = SysAllocString(L"IPAddress");
BSTR ArgNameSM = SysAllocString(L"SubnetMask");
BSTR IP = SysAllocString(L"172.21.0.1");
BSTR SM = SysAllocString(L"255.255.0.0");


SAFEARRAYBOUND sab[1];
sab[0].cElements = 1;
sab[0].lLbound = 0;


LONG i = 0; // index needed for SafeArrayPutElement()


// var1 is the array that holds one element which is IP
VARIANT var1;
var1.vt = VT_ARRAY | VT_BSTR;
var1.parray = SafeArrayCreate(VT_BSTR, 1, sab); // create the array
SafeArrayPutElement(var1.parray, &i, IP); // put IP in the array
at pos 0


// var2 is the array that holds one element which is SM
VARIANT var2;
var2.vt = VT_ARRAY | VT_BSTR;
var2.parray = SafeArrayCreate(VT_BSTR, 1, sab); // create the array
SafeArrayPutElement(var2.parray, &i, SM); // put SM in the array
at pos 0


// put the ArgName and the Argument itself into the Method instance we
have
hr = pInInst-Put(ArgNameIP, 0, &var1, 0);
VariantClear(&var1);
hr = pInInst-Put(ArgNameSM, 0, &var2, 0);
VariantClear(&var2);


// Enumerate the instances of the NetworkAdapter to get at the __PATH
property
// to the one and only network card we really want to modify
IEnumWbemClassObject* pEnum;
hr = pNamespace-CreateInstanceEnum(className,
WBEM_FLAG_RETURN_IMMEDIATELY | WBEM_FLAG_FORWARD_ONLY,
NULL, &pEnum);


// Get the instance
ULONG numRet;
BSTR PropName;
VARIANT desc;
VARIANT dhcp;
VARIANT ipEnabled;
VARIANT pathVar;
IWbemClassObject *pInstance;
while ( hr != WBEM_S_FALSE)
{
hr = pEnum-Next(WBEM_INFINITE, (ULONG)1, &pInstance, &numRet);

if(0 == numRet)
break;
// we know that the one with DHCP is the one we want
PropName = SysAllocString(L"DHCPEnabled");
pInstance-Get(PropName, 0, &dhcp, 0, 0);
if (dhcp.bVal)
{
SysFreeString(PropName);
PropName = SysAllocString(L"IPEnabled");
pInstance-Get(PropName, 0, &ipEnabled, 0, 0);
SysFreeString(PropName);
if(ipEnabled.bVal)
{
// Print out the description just for us to see
SysFreeString(PropName);
PropName = SysAllocString(L"Description");
pInstance-Get(PropName, 0, &desc, 0, 0);
SysFreeString(PropName);
break;
}
}
SysFreeString(PropName);
}


// now we have the instance of the actual network card we want to modify
// let's query it's PATH property so that we can call the method on it.
PropName = SysAllocString(L"__PATH");
pInstance-Get(PropName, 0, &pathVar, 0, 0);
BSTR InstancePath = pathVar.bstrVal;


// finally we get to call the actuall method we want (EnableStatic())
hr = pNamespace-ExecMethod(InstancePath, methodName, 0, NULL,
pInInst, &pOutInst, NULL);
long ret = 0;
if(hr != WBEM_S_NO_ERROR)
{
BSTR Text;
hr = pOutInst-GetObjectText(0, &Text);
// CString strText = Text;
// MessageBox(strText);
}
else
{
// Get the EnableStatic method return value

VARIANT ret_value;
BSTR strReturnValue = SysAllocString(L"ReturnValue");
hr = pOutInst-Get(strReturnValue, 0, &ret_value, 0, 0);
long ret = V_I4(&ret_value);
}



// We're done!
// Free up resources
SysFreeString(className);
SysFreeString(methodName);
SysFreeString(namespacePath);
SysFreeString(ArgNameIP);
SysFreeString(ArgNameSM);
SysFreeString(IP);
SysFreeString(SM);
SysFreeString(PropName);
SysFreeString(InstancePath);
pLocator-Release();
pClass-Release();
pMethod-Release();
pNamespace-Release();
pInInst-Release();
pOutInst-Release();
pEnum-Release();
pInstance-Release();
CoUninitialize();
return ret;
}
 




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