For Programmers: Free Programming Magazines  


Home > Archive > Visual Basic > April 2006 > VB6 Get Remote MAC Address Windows 98









You are viewing an archived Text-only version of the thread. To view this thread in it's original format and/or if you want to reply to this thread please [click here]

 

Author VB6 Get Remote MAC Address Windows 98
jasondavidcarr@gmail.com

2006-04-26, 6:56 pm

Hello all,

I'm really struggling with this one. I have this working just fine in
2000 and XP using the SendARP API. Unfortunately, however, this API
does not exist in 98. I need some way to retrieve a MAC address of a
remote machine via the remote machine's IP address. Basically, all I
need is an alternative to the SendARP API for Windows 98. Does anyone
have any suggestions/ideas? I've searched the Internet up and down for
a solution and so far it looks like I'm SOL.

Thanks,
Jason

Norm Cook

2006-04-27, 7:56 am

See this page and the related pages:
http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/network/hostnamefromip.htm

<jasondavidcarr@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1146070743.388339.259510@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I'm really struggling with this one. I have this working just fine in
> 2000 and XP using the SendARP API. Unfortunately, however, this API
> does not exist in 98. I need some way to retrieve a MAC address of a
> remote machine via the remote machine's IP address. Basically, all I
> need is an alternative to the SendARP API for Windows 98. Does anyone
> have any suggestions/ideas? I've searched the Internet up and down for
> a solution and so far it looks like I'm SOL.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>



jasondavidcarr@gmail.com

2006-04-27, 6:56 pm

Thanks for the attempt, but I've already read through all of those
pages (over and over again). None of them solve my problem. The key
issues that are different are that I need to retrieve a REMOTE
machine's MAC, and I need to do it under Windows 98. There's a
solution there that I've already implemented for XP and 2K, but it
doesn't work under 98. Any other suggestions?

Ian R

2006-04-30, 7:57 am

You can get it through WMI. It isn't part of Win 9x so you'll have to
download it from Microsoft.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._start_page.asp

<jasondavidcarr@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1146154869.837774.149370@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> Thanks for the attempt, but I've already read through all of those
> pages (over and over again). None of them solve my problem. The key
> issues that are different are that I need to retrieve a REMOTE
> machine's MAC, and I need to do it under Windows 98. There's a
> solution there that I've already implemented for XP and 2K, but it
> doesn't work under 98. Any other suggestions?
>



Sponsored Links







Also available: Server administration forum archive | Web Design forum archive | Software forum archive | Hardware reviews archive

Copyright 2008 codecomments.com