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Richard M · 08-04-2005, 09:48

Fairly straightforward you'd think, just do a "nbtstat -a \\computer" but it's slightly more complicated - the machine is turned off.

However, it belongs to a Win2k domain and I have access to the server which runs Windows 2003.
Is there anywhere in the AD that I can find historical MAC address info?
I've looked in the eventlog for the DNS server but can't really see much.

The reason is that I need to do a Wake On LAN - but this needs the MAC address.

08-04-2005, 09:48	#1
Richard M Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Age: 45 Posts: 6,343	How to find MAC address of computer on LAN? Fairly straightforward you'd think, just do a "nbtstat -a \\computer" but it's slightly more complicated - the machine is turned off. However, it belongs to a Win2k domain and I have access to the server which runs Windows 2003. Is there anywhere in the AD that I can find historical MAC address info? I've looked in the eventlog for the DNS server but can't really see much. The reason is that I need to do a Wake On LAN - but this needs the MAC address.