Get MAC Address

[DBarranca]

Hi,

is there a platform independent way to get the machine MAC Address via ExtendScript?

I've found this one but apparently it's Win only (and uses VBScript, which InDesign can call using app.doScript() which we don't have in PS)

Get network adapter Name/MAC/Speed | IndiSnip [InDesign® Snippets]

Thank you very much in advance,

Davide Barranca

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[xbytor2 · Accepted solution]

On Windows, do

    app.system("getmac > /tmp/mac"); $.sleep(1000);

and parse the output.

On OS X, do

   app.system("networksetup -listallhardwareports > /tmp/mac"); $.sleep(1000);

and parse the output.

The sleep() calls are because app.system() call executes the command line asynchronously.

I haven't tested it but it looks close.

[DBarranca]

Thank you x,

on the HTML Panel side I've also found this node module which seems to work pretty well too (even if ExtScript is safer): getmac

I've tested the OSX and works good, thanks! I assume the Win does too.

Davide

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

$.os

if ($.os.charAt (0) == 'W') {
    alert("windows");
} else if ($.os.charAt (0) == 'M'){
    alert("mac");
} else {
    alert("whatever :-)");
}

[DBarranca]

Hi Pedro,

I'm afraid I was asking about MAC Address, which is the unique ID of Network Interfaces 😉

(something like e4:ce:8f:5b:a7:fc)

Davide

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

Here I can't test it, but does any of this get it some where?

$.writeln("ALLUSERSPROFILE  == "+  $.getenv("ALLUSERSPROFILE"));
$.writeln("APPDATA  == "+  $.getenv("APPDATA"));
$.writeln("CommonProgramFiles  == "+  $.getenv("CommonProgramFiles"));
$.writeln("COMPUTERNAME  == "+  $.getenv("COMPUTERNAME"));
$.writeln("ComSpec  == "+  $.getenv("ComSpec"));
$.writeln("HOMEDRIVE  == "+  $.getenv("HOMEDRIVE"));
$.writeln("HOMEPATH  == "+  $.getenv("HOMEPATH"));
$.writeln("LOGONSERVER  == "+  $.getenv("LOGONSERVER"));
$.writeln("NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS  == "+  $.getenv("NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS"));
$.writeln("OS  == "+  $.getenv("OS"));
$.writeln("Os2LibPath  == "+  $.getenv("Os2LibPath"));
$.writeln("Path  == "+  $.getenv("Path"));
$.writeln("PATHEXT  == "+  $.getenv("PATHEXT"));
$.writeln("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE  == "+  $.getenv("PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE"));
$.writeln("PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER  == "+  $.getenv("PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER"));
$.writeln("PROCESSOR_LEVEL  == "+  $.getenv("PROCESSOR_LEVEL"));
$.writeln("PROCESSOR_REVISION  == "+  $.getenv("PROCESSOR_REVISION"));
$.writeln("ProgramFiles  == "+  $.getenv("ProgramFiles"));
$.writeln("SystemDrive  == "+  $.getenv("SystemDrive"));
$.writeln("SystemRoot  == "+  $.getenv("SystemRoot"));
$.writeln("TEMP  == "+  $.getenv("TEMP"));
$.writeln("TMP  == "+  $.getenv("TMP"));
$.writeln("USERDOMAIN  == "+  $.getenv("USERDOMAIN"));
$.writeln("USERNAME  == "+  $.getenv("USERNAME"));
$.writeln("USERPROFILE  == "+  $.getenv("USERPROFILE"));
$.writeln("windir  == "+  $.getenv("windir"));