How to open terminal on mac. As you know MacOS runs on Unix and sometimes there is a requirement to run commands through mac terminal. Let's Find out how to. The quickest way to find the MAC address is through the command prompt. Open the command prompt. Search 'Command Prompt' in the taskbar, or if you have an older version of Windows, you can. Use this method to obtain the MAC Address of your local computer as well as query remotely by computer name or IP Address. Hold down the “Windows Key” and press “R“. Type “CMD“, then press “Enter“. You can use one of the following commands. A command line prompt is a way of interacting with your computer without a graphical interface. While your modern Mac uses a graphical user interface, (GUI) older computers used only command prompts. The command line usually gives you more options than the GUI. The first line shows the last time you logged into your Mac via the command line; that’s the current time, when you’re using Terminal. The second line is the prompt, and while it can change.
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.
Mac Address Cmd Prompt
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:
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.
Command Prompt List
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.”
Command Prompt For Macbook Pro
If you provide incorrect password, the command would fail with the error message “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
Also Read:
Windows CMD commands reference
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