Hi Mike,

most examples of WMI are done with Windows Shell Scripting, which is a non-starter in any kind of secure environment. However, WMI can be done entirely from within VFP: are you staying you've run into environments where that would be prohibited?

tnx,

Hank

>>I can get it using WMI, but I am wondering what issues I might have in the wild trying to use WMI?
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>Network admins preventing script (of any kind) running on their systems...There different versions of WMI for different OSs.
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>>I have run into a problem using API calls to get a MAC address to identify a machine. On Windows XP if the cable is disconnected, id don't get the adapter's MAC address using NetWkstaTransportEnum.
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