>I can not believe there is no 100% reliable way to read the MAC address from a netcard because WinIPCFG on Win9x machines will do it right every time. The equivalent utility on NT/2K does it reliably as well.

Also, be aware that this code will only run in VFP 7- there was a bug in VFP 6 that prevents you from instantiating an root namespace object with a moniker.