Remote MAC address on Windows

[Luis]

A plain text file should do it, with the MAC code encrypted.

Other than that, you could pop over and get the MAC address off the 
interface directly! It's stamped on all network hardware (might be on 
the inside though...). Whoever installs the soft can get access and use 
that as the key.

Cheers,

Luis.


J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Alex Tweedly wrote:
>>
>> In any case, there was nothing in your description that said to me 
>> "must be on same subnet", so as Luis said, arp is pretty much a loser 
>> once you need to handle a routed (multi-subnet) network; I'd look more 
>> into his suggestions of a script / file on the server which determines 
>> / holds its own MAC address.
> 
> That's the conclusion I've come to after thinking about this all day. 
> But keeping a file on the server pretty much ruins the copy protection. 
> All anyone has to do is copy the program and its data files, and then it 
> will work when accessed from another computer -- even if the "server" 
> that holds the copied app isn't registered. The client will think it is.
> 
> So that leaves me wondering where to put such a file. It has to be a 
> place that allows full read permissions for remote computers, but can't 
> be found or copied easily. I don't think there such a place, but I'd 
> settle for something "good enough" at this point.
> 
> I'm looking into ADS now for that type of storage. What do you think 
> about that? Will it cause my app to be flaggged as a virus?
>