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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