>Since the code used to get the MAC address was GETENV(), I can tell you basically how that works. In the Novell login script, the Network Administrator put in a command to set an environment variable to the MAC address. Something like:
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>STATION_ID = P_STATION
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>or #SET STATION_ID = P_STATION

Yes that is exactly how we set the environment variable.
Do you know for a fact that p_station doesn't work under W2K?


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>So if you were to shell out to a command prompt and type the word SET and hit Enter, you would see this environment variable and the MAC address. This works in Win9x, but I am guessing Win2k/XP/NT machines may not report the value of P_STATION correctly.
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>I use a free ActiveX control that I downloaded from the CompuServer VFP forum called MACADDRESS. I am sure it is still there. Everything else I have tried has never been 100% reliable except this one.

I'll check that ActiveX out. Thanks.

Do you know how to set an environment variable at runtime?
set myvar = einar works but when I open a new dos command prompt it is not in the list after I issue the set command.

Einar