win32utils devel - Jun 2008 - hostid on Windows Vista and later

Hi all,

According to my research, the equivalent of gethostid() on Windows is 
the IPXAddress member of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class. 
You can see the equivalent if you type "ipconfig /all" and look at the
"Physical Address" member.

However, the MSDN docs say that the IPXAddress member is no longer valid 
on Windows Vista and later. Does anyone know how to get the hostid on 
Vista and later?

Thanks,

Dan

Hi Dan,

I did a little research, and found the following code that''s supposed
to do this
on Vista, although I didn''t try running it myself:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/Net_Adapter_Info_in_C_.aspx

Since it''s C# .NET code it probably isn''t exactly what
you''re looking for, but
maybe it will point out directions for further investigation.   (Of course,
on Vista, .NET 3.0 is always present.)

Wayne

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Daniel Berger <djberg96 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> According to my research, the equivalent of gethostid() on Windows is the
> IPXAddress member of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class. You can
> see the equivalent if you type "ipconfig /all" and look at the
"Physical
> Address" member.
>
> However, the MSDN docs say that the IPXAddress member is no longer valid on
> Windows Vista and later. Does anyone know how to get the hostid on Vista
and
> later?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
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Hi,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Berger" <djberg96 at gmail.com>
To: "Development and ideas for win32utils projects" 
<win32utils-devel at rubyforge.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:49 AM
Subject: [Win32utils-devel] hostid on Windows Vista and later

> Hi all,
>
> According to my research, the equivalent of gethostid() on Windows is the 
> IPXAddress member of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class. You can 
> see the equivalent if you type "ipconfig /all" and look at the
"Physical
> Address" member.
>
> However, the MSDN docs say that the IPXAddress member is no longer valid 
> on Windows Vista and later. Does anyone know how to get the hostid on 
> Vista and later?
>
Why do you need  IPXAddress member? As I know, the IPX protocol is not 
installed by default on XP and 2003.
In my test  IPXAdress is just same to MACAddress and MACAddress member works 
on Vista.
Following script works on XP, 2003 and Vista:

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" _
    & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
    "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where 
IPEnabled=true",,48)
For Each objItem in colItems
    Wscript.Echo "MACAddress: " & objItem.MACAddress
Next

Regards,

Park Heesob

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Park Heesob <phasis at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Berger" <djberg96 at gmail.com>
> To: "Development and ideas for win32utils projects"
> <win32utils-devel at rubyforge.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 10:49 AM
> Subject: [Win32utils-devel] hostid on Windows Vista and later
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> According to my research, the equivalent of gethostid() on Windows is
the
>> IPXAddress member of the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class. You
can
>> see the equivalent if you type "ipconfig /all" and look at
the "Physical
>> Address" member.
>>
>> However, the MSDN docs say that the IPXAddress member is no longer
valid
>> on Windows Vista and later. Does anyone know how to get the hostid on
>> Vista and later?
>>
> Why do you need  IPXAddress member? As I know, the IPX protocol is not
> installed by default on XP and 2003.
> In my test  IPXAdress is just same to MACAddress and MACAddress member
works
> on Vista.
> Following script works on XP, 2003 and Vista:
>
> strComputer = "."
> Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" _
>    & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2")
> Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
>    "SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration where
> IPEnabled=true",,48)
> For Each objItem in colItems
>    Wscript.Echo "MACAddress: " & objItem.MACAddress
> Next
>
> Regards,
>
> Park Heesob
Ah, silly me, I missed that.

Thanks,

Dan

PS - This is for the sys-host library