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Xtra to get the Mac Address of the computer (both PC and Mac)
I need to get the Mac Address of the computer I am on (for serial generating purposes), but I haven't come across anything that would help, except for https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/20452808/how-to-get-the-MAC-address-of-the-network-card.html . AJ_Brindley had created an xtra (it would seam) to do just this. Does anyone know where I could get his xtra, or know of an Xtra or some straight forward way of doing this (no command prompts or shells please, and I would rather not program this xtra myself if it has already been done).
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I found this for the PC...
http://tenothree.com/xtras/To3GetMac.zip
It claims to get the Mac addresses (some Machines amy not have any if there is no network card.
You can also use ipConfig on the PC to store a text file you then read with the info, and applescript can do this on the Mac.
I don't know of any other method other than creating a custom Xtra. We have done this in the past for things like parsing CSV files, etc, so Mac address shoudl not be that difficult to get bundled in an Xtra.
http://tenothree.com/xtras/To3GetMac.zip
It claims to get the Mac addresses (some Machines amy not have any if there is no network card.
You can also use ipConfig on the PC to store a text file you then read with the info, and applescript can do this on the Mac.
I don't know of any other method other than creating a custom Xtra. We have done this in the past for things like parsing CSV files, etc, so Mac address shoudl not be that difficult to get bundled in an Xtra.
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Well I think I will just use the shell script as that is still OS X and Windows compatible. Thanks for your help, it seams that you know your stuff.
--BackBayChef
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