Identifying a certain Windows machine

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Wed Mar 31 00:24:20 EDT 2010


Alex Tweedly wrote:
> Joe F. wrote:
>> Wow- that is some answer. Thank you Monte.
>>
>> I was actually expecting something like "getSystemID" to be built into 
>> Revtalk, but...
>>
>> You inspired me to make myself a script library.
> Note this approach works 99% of the time, but can go wrong (or at least 
> be very confusing) if the user has installed any devices which have an 
> in-built MAC address (e.g. a USB Wifi card, perhaps to get better reach 
> than the in-built wifi gets, he says from experience :-).  This may be 
> the MAC address reported first, giving an "ID" which can later change.

Monte's script looks at interface en0. Does your Wifi card register on 
that one?

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