Is there a way to find a clients MAC address without physically being at there computer? Are company is currently finding a better means of managing a network enviroment for its clients. My question is instead of physically obtaining a clients MAC address onsite is there a command th

net view at a command prompt. Find the name of the machine you want. nbtstat -a machinename at a command prompt. MAC address will be at the bottom.

That helped me find the MAC addresses of the clients that I'm connected to locally. Is there a way of using that command over a LAN/WAN? Are company is currently finding a better means of managing a network enviroment for its clients. My question is instead of physically obtaining a clients MAC address onsite is there a command th

If you can ping this host over the LAN/WAN, his MAC address will be cached in ARP table of your NIC for a while, so, from command prompt: c:\ ping 1.2.3.4 after some echo replies from host 1.2.3.4 c:\arp -a and you will see MAC address of 1.2.3.4

When I tried what you had suggested I do receive a Reply back from the Ping, but once I try try the arp -a command it just gives me 3 local IP's and their MAC addresses and not the one that I was looking for. Are company is currently finding a better means of managing a network enviroment for its clients. My question is instead of physically obtaining a clients MAC address onsite is there a command th

Why not try one of the PSTOOLS (freeware from Sysinternals) PSEXEC \\computername thei will bring up a cmd window, & will be on the remote machine, then ipconfig /all Crude, but works. Not tried, but probably can be scripted.