Cmd For Mac
We can find mac address (physical address) of a computer using the command ‘getmac‘. This can be used to get mac address for remote computers also. Below are few examples on how to use this command. It works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008 operating systems.
Extract the Image File with Winrar or 7zip. The first thing that you should do is go ahead and install. Sometimes it is needed to know MAC address of the devices like computers, routers, switch or some others. This article describes how to use MAC address ipconfig command. Click on the Start Menu. Type 'cmd' without quotes and press Enter. At the command prompt, type 'ipconfig /all' without quotes. (space between g and /). It’s the command line that returns the MAC address with the list of network protocols associated with each address for all network adapters from either local or remote computer. It can be useful either when you want to enter the MAC address into a network analyzer or when you need to know what protocols are currently in use on each network. I have ip address of one of my remote server I cannot login remotely. I have the IP address and I and trying to find the mac address or interface that connected to the server. Could you tell me the command or the way to find the Switch port or mac address if you only have ip address. The first line shows the last time you logged into your Mac via the command line; that’s the current time, when you’re using Terminal. The second line is the prompt, and while it can change.
Get mac addresses from CMD
Just run the command getmac to get the mac addresses. Find an example below.
This command does not show mac addresses for the network connections which are disabled. You can run ncpa.cpl and check which NICs are disabled. Further, I have received comments that this command does not help identify the mac address for a specific device. For example, if I need to get the mac address for my WiFi card, output of getmac command is not helpful. We can use ipconfig command to deal with this.
Get mac address of a remote computer
Cmd For Macbook
We can retrieve the mac addressses for a remote computer using nbtstat command.
Example:
Alternatively, We can run the below command to retrieve the mac addresses of a remote computer.
remote_computer : Full name of the remote computer or IP address
username and password are of the account on the remote computer.
Example:
If you do not want to specify the password, you can skip /p parameter. You will be prompted to enter the password and the command execution will take place after that.
Errors:
Using getmac command we can retrieve the mac addresses of the machines running windows OS only. If you try this for a Linux machine you would get the error “The RPC server is unavailable.”
If you provide incorrect password, the command would fail with the error message “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
Cmd For Macbook Pro
Also Read:
Windows CMD commands reference