Identifying a certain Windows machine

[Alex Tweedly]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 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?
>
On OS X it looks at en0, but on Windows it does a search for "Physical 
address", so it uses the first one it happens to find (which is not 
always the LAN cards).

-- Alex