On Linux-based systems the MAC address of an interface can be obtained using the ioctl command SIOCGIFHWADDR. The method described here has five steps: Create an ifreq structure for passing data in and out of ioctl. Provide an open socket descriptor. Invoke ioctl. Check the type of the returned hardware address. You can change the Network Card Mac Address on Ubuntu and Linux Mint via GUI (graphic cal user interface) by going to the networking indicator on the top or bottom and select “Edit connection” to configure or create a new connection. Next click “Add” and give a name to the new connection you want to create with the new spoofed MAC address.
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I have specific situation. I want to get MAC address from a remote computer, which is not in domain. I know the hostname and IP address of the remote computer. The IP Address of my computer is 192.168.2.40 and the remote computer IP is 192.168.2.41.
I've tried:
Is it possible to get the MAC address of the remote system from the command line, powershell or something else? Which conditions need to be set? Thank you.
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nmap will return the MAC address as well as just about anything else you'd like to know. Digital binder app for mac.
If you have admin access to the machine, powershell & wmi are both very useful in getting remote diagnostics. They both have extensive documentation at technet.microsoft.com
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MAC addresses are Ethernet things, not Internet things. A computer need not even have a MAC address. The only way to get the MAC address is to get some computer on the same LAN as that computer to tell it to you. And you'd have no way to know it was giving you the correct information.
If the two of you are in the same Ethernet LAN, you can just David SchwartzDavid Schwartz
ping the computer and then look in your ARP table. Otherwise, you would have to ask a computer in the same Etherent/Wifi LAN.
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Find Mac Address In Linux
You can get it from WMI, and any language that can read WMI will be able to access it. VBScript, JScript, Perl, Python, and Powershell can all be used to get to it.
Since you asked specifically Powershell, here's an example from http://www.neolisk.com/techblog/powershell-getmacaddressofanyremoteip:
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yep. The easiest way should be just doing a ping and then check the ARP table
If you're more into actually getting stuff inventoried and reported I would suggest havoing a look at the free software from Spiceworks ( http://www.spiceworks.com ) to set upp constant monitoring and always havce your information easily available about your entire enivorenment.
I've used it for years and it works great on LAN.
It does have some issues with sending inventories ocf sofwtare to remote sites though, haven't really figured out why yet but apart from that, I highly recommend it .
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If you know name of computer easies way will be:
More advanced script which can take any machine by IP or hostname:
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MAC is OSI Layer 2 - you won't get it directly when there is any Layer 3 hop in between - and for securtity reasons all protocols to query such data should not be allowed in anything beyond one's LAN..
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While what is above is a bit over complicated, if you have no entries found after a ping then you need to enable routing and remote access in services, it probably is disabled. Then goto a command prompt and issue a Andrew Schulman
arp -a to see your cache, use arp -a <IP> for that machine mac address.
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ChrisWChrisW
You could try this :
You will get the remote mac address in the (pretty verbose) generated response.
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Mo thugs the mothership download. 'nmap -v -A [host name/IP address]' might be your best choice; UNIX OS for the client might have it natively available; but nmap is also available for Windows clients as well..
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I know question was for none domain systems however for those that may stumble on this looking for domain computer examples below is a quick and easy way to do it.
in windows you can just do the following
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simply runs a basic command prompt command on a remote system and returns the data.
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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.
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
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:
Get Mac Address Vista
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.”
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