Retrieving Machine ID

SachinBhave

Hi All, I have a requirement, where I need to get the following information. 1. MAC Address. 2. HDD Serial Number 3. CD/DVD Drive Serial Number. 4. CPU Processor ID. I have my application in VC++ using MFC. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks, Sachin.

_AnsHUMAN_

GetVolumeInformation() will do more than half the work. For MAC Address - (this is only my opinion) one thing that would work all the time is run a shell "arp -a" and internally search the output for the needed MAC. The other thing you can do is WMI(Read it somewhere don't know how it's done) Somethings seem HARD to do, until we know how to do them. ;-) _AnShUmAn_

Viorel

Perhaps you will found methods based on querying the System Registry. Nevertheless, consider that the data you need can be obtained using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI):

MAC Address -- see Win32_NetworkAdapter WMI class;
HDD Serial Number -- see Win32_DiskDrive WMI class;
CD/DVD Drive Serial Number -- see Win32_CDROMDrive WMI class;
CPU Processor ID -- see Win32_Processor WMI class.

WMI seems to be difficult to use in C++. So use it if no easier equivalent methods.

David Crow

_AnShUmAn_ wrote:

GetVolumeInformation() will do more than half the work.

How so? While it may be used to get the serial number of the hard drive or the CD drive, how do you propose it getting the MAC address or the CPU id?

_AnShUmAn_ wrote:

For MAC Address - (this is only my opinion) one thing that would work all the time is run a shell "arp -a" and internally search the output for the needed MAC.

Even though APIs exist for obtaining MAC addresses, capturing the output or arp -a is not going to work. You should use ipconfig /all instead.

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