[AccessD] Mac address

Erwin Craps - IT Helps Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be
Sun Jan 4 14:45:07 CST 2004


This 0.0.0.0 could result from having multiple nic's in your pc.
If you have a PPP connector you would receive a MAC address from that
to, but when not connected this would be 0
I'm not compleetly sure of this but a PPP dial adapter is a nic to.
And it could be wrongly set to the first nic in the binding.

What I wanna say is that you would need to itterate trough the list of
all nic's and verify which mac address you want to use.

2 or 3 nic's per pc are not uncommon.
For example .
1x NIC
1x PPP modem dial
1x PPPoE ADSL modem

If you wanna verify just type ipconfig /ALL in a dos window in NT/2K/XP,
the result is a complete list of all adapters AND MAC address.
Type winipcfg in W9X, you get a form where you can chose from the
multiple nic's and see there MAC address.

Erwin


 

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] Namens Jim Dettman
Verzonden: zondag 4 januari 2004 18:57
Aan: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Onderwerp: RE: [AccessD] Mac address

I would agree.  A MAC address is usually a lot more stable then a HD
serial number.  I wasn't aware though that a spoof utility was out
there.

Looks like the code will need to dig a little deeper and get the actual
hardware address.

BTW I'm not sure why that code I sent you returned 0.0.0.0.  did the
same thing here on Win98SE.  It's never failed before, but then it's
been a few years since I used it.  I looked it over real quick and I see
it's making a NetBIOS call, which the success of might be dependant on
the protocols loaded.

Jim Dettman
President,
Online Computer Services of WNY, Inc.
(315) 699-3443
jimdettman at earthlink.net

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John W. Colby
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:53 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Mac address


And how does that make the disk sn better.  That DOES change with every
format (and every new HD).  When was the last time YOU changed your MAC
address?  As form myself, I've NEVER done so.  When was the last YOU
formatted (or replaced) your hard disk?  As for myself, at LEAST half
dozen times over 4 systems just in the last 4 or 5 years.

Hmmm.... Never or 1/2 dozen times...

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Haslett,
Andrew
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 9:02 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Mac address


Hard Disk SN is far better than using the MAC address.  Jees, some BIOS
these days even allow you to change your MAC address yourself.

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com]
Sent: Sunday, 4 January 2004 2:19 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Mac address

LOL.  I learned a long time ago not to sweat the small stuff.  If there
are hackers figuring out how to hack Microsoft's $100 million copy
protection, I am not going to survive a determined attempt to get around
my stuff.

On the other hand, I assume you lock your front door.  And I assume
there is glass in the door that anyone who wants in could just smash to
reach in and unlock your door.  So why do you bother?  Because the lock
keeps 99% of the people out of your house.

99% is good enough for me.  I will not even bat an eyelash nor give a
second thought to the other 1%.

99% of the effort COULD be spent stopping (or failing to stop) that last
1%.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart
McLachlan
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 7:00 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: RE: [AccessD] Mac address


Take a look at http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/
for a way to defeat this copy protection scheme.

(Follow the link to "the research of Kyle Lai" for a lot of good info on
MAC
addresses)


On 3 Jan 2004 at 13:34, John W. Colby wrote:

> Yea, but you have to start somewhere.  More and more NICs are embedded
right
> in the motherboards so this is getting less and less likely.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 12:53 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Mac address
>
>
> Hi John
>
> Hmm ... so the user changes his/hers NIC and is hosed ..?
>
> /gustav
>
>
> > Date: 2004-01-03 18:14
>
> > Well... I'm looking at a machine specific piece for copy protection.
The
> > work station name might be specific to a network, but is created by 
> > the software (or user doing the install) so if the machine went down

> > (as
many
> of
> > mine have over the last few years) if the user didn't select the 
> > same
name
> > then the key wouldn't work.
>

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