Re: Machine serial number
Re: Machine serial number
- Subject: Re: Machine serial number
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:33:00 +0100
On Monday, September 24, 2001, at 07:24 pm, Nathan V. Roberts wrote:
I'd like to use Cocoa to get some kind of serial number unique to the
machine; something like what's listed under "Production Information" in
Apple System Profiler would be dandy. How do I get at that information?
The most common way of getting a unique identifier to a machine is to
use its MAC address (on the Ethernet card). There is a technote
somewhere describing how to go about doing that under OS 9, I presume
it's still possible under Carbon...
Anyway, why do you need a unique identifier in the first place?
-- Finlay