Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Remotely determining a mac address

So today I had need of finding the mac address of a license server.. this server is a virtual and currently my vcenter server is down.  So unbeknownst to me Windows has had a nice little built-in command since XP called GetMac.

Read more here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490913.aspx

For those who don;t want to read it let me give you the simplest syntax for it..


getmac /s <hostname> /u domain\user /p <password>

That's it.  Short, simple and quick.. does exactly what you want it to.  Also there's no subnet limitations like with arp -a.


Enjoy.

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