Saturday, January 30, 2010

Get the MAC address of remote desktop or server in Windows

Ever wonder how to remotely get a mac address of a remote Windows machine without logging in.

1. Start command prompt with an account that has admin rights on the remote machine
2. type getmac /S machinename.domain.com

Here is an example:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>getmac /S Robin01.domain.com

Physical Address Transport Name
=================== ==========================================================
00-50-56-AA-56-2D \Device\Tcpip_{00B3A1D6-AE6F-4879-9588-BA3989521384}

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