
We can use the ipconfig command to deal with this. For example, when I need to get the Mac address for my WiFi card, the output of the getmac command is not helpful. Also, I've received comments that this command does nothing to help determine the Mac address for a specific device. You can run ncpa.cpl and check which network cards are disabled. This command (getmach) does not display Mac addresses for the disabled network connections.

If you enter an incorrect password, the command fails with the error message "Logon failure": unknown user name or incorrect password Alert!Ĥ.) What should you watch out for when querying the MAC address? Its typically not installed so youll have to go download it and install it manually.
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If you try to do this on a Linux computer, you receive an error message "The RPC server is not available". If you want to sweep the entire LAN for MAC addresses you can use the command line tool fing to do so. The getmac command will only allow us to get the Mac addresses of the computers that are running Windows. C: \> getmac /s /u administrator /p admin passwordģ4-41-47-7B-AC-88 \ Device \ Tcpip_ ģ.) Query Linux computer with the command getmac?
