In article <[🔎] 200506241452.40839.leva@az.isten.hu> you wrote: > How can I get a machines mac address, if I only know it's ip? if it is on your local network you can ping it and then use "arp -a". If it is remote you cant. (you need to login or use other applications which use the mac for stuff like uuid generation) BTW: this is a linux user question. Bernd