r4132: - Bunch of rather large fixes in the registry

- Added some README files

Not everything works yet, e.g. the EnumValue test appears to be broken.
(This used to be commit c169e86c1f52763b83e77e509f89cb91f9b69071)

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+This is the registry library. The registry is basically a bunch of hives 
+(HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, etc) that can be loaded from 
+different places.
+
+The various registry backends provide support for loading/saving specific types 
+of hives:
+ - ldb 
+ - w95 (USER.DAT-style files)
+ - nt4 (NTUSER.DAT-style files)
+ - gconf (GNOME configuration)
+ - rpc (Remote individual hives)
+
+Instead of opening individual hives, one can also open a 'complete' registry by 
+using one of these three functions:
+ 
+ - reg_open_local() - load local registry, see below
+ - reg_open_remote() - connect to remote registry over RPC
+ - reg_open_wine() (not working yet)
+
+reg_open_local() loads a set of hives based on smb.conf settings. 
+Lines in smb.conf should have the following syntax:
+
+registry:<hivename> = <backend>:<location>
+
+So an example usage could be:
+
+registry:HKEY_CURRENT_USER = nt4:NTUSER.DAT
+registry:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = ldb:tdb://registry.tdb
+
+WERR_NOT_SUPPORTED will be returned for all hives that haven't been set.