Get Mac Address

[Mclaren]

Hi, i need to look up the Mac Address of a PC using VB, how can i do this ?



Office 2003 being used.

[ajetrumpet]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[Mclaren]

I tried all the pages in the above link, i cannot seem to get anything that will work from them.

I really need to gain some unique identifier of a pc that will not change, even after a complete format and re-install. i thought of using the PC name but this can change. if it changes, activation will have to be redone, and i will not be able to determine if it is still the same PC or not.

I am not a super coder and most of the example are so complex i cannot seen\m to figure out what needs to be done to the code to make it work in ms assess. I really need some "Simple" way of determining a unique PC identifier for my database.

[Matrix]

There is no easy way to get a unique PC identifier. The problem with MAC address method: many computers have more than one MAC address, it's easy to get the MAC list, but it's very hard to determine the primary MAC address. I suggest you use hard disk volume number: GetVolumeInformation.

[Mclaren]

thanks, i will investigate further, the drive details.