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Mon, Dec 22nd, 2008 @ 4:33 pm |
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So, I needed to get the MAC address for my manager’s laptop to grant it access to our wireless network in the office, and didn’t quite know how to do that in Vista. At the time, I didn’t know that Vista actually did still have a (limited) command line interface like in XP, so I *could* have run “ipconfig”, but I digress.
Anyway, without knowing the above, I Googled how to determine the MAC address for a PC unfortunately running Vista. The specific command to display all the MAC addresses for the network interfaces in Vista, and apparently in Windows in general, made me chuckle:
Oh how very amusing. 
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3 Comments
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You could also use “ipconfig /all” which has been around since the Cadvision days.
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Oh, I know… but “ipconfig” isn’t as amusing as “getmac”. Why the hell would they need a specific tool for that, especially with that name?
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Well, for one, getmac uses WMI queries which are far more flexible, and more importantly, can retrieve a MAC address over the network.
This is an invaluable tool when troubleshooting networked connectivity issues in an Active Directory environment.
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