We can find mac address (physical address) of a computer using the command ‘getmac‘. This can be used to get mac address for remote computers also. Below are few examples on how to use this command. It works on XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2003 and Server 2008 operating systems.
Get mac addresses from CMD
Double click on the virtual machine that you created for DOS. (I renamed mine DOS because I already have one name DOS 6.22) Click on 'Devices', mouse over 'Floppy Device', and click 'Choose a Virtual Floppy Disk File' Navigate to where you downloaded the setup disks and double click on disk one. Close the virtual machine's windows and select 'Power off the machine'. DOS-on-USB lets you install MS-DOS 7.1 on your USB memory key. After formatting your flash drive, you can install a full working version of MS-DOS to let you. Similar Software for Mac. Install tofrodos on Mac OSX; Install docbook2x on Mac OSX; Install xml2 on Mac OSX; Install enscript on Mac OSX; Install highlight on Mac OSX; Install itex2mml on Mac OSX; Install gnu-barcode on Mac OSX; Install txt2man on Mac OSX; Install talk-filters on Mac OSX; Install mplayer on Mac. MS-DOS has never looked so good. Boxer is designed to look, feel and work beautifully: just like everything else you love on your Mac. That means Boxer fits hand in glove with OS X: you can launch programs and gameboxes straight from Finder, search your collection in Spotlight, add extra drives in DOS just by drag-and-drop. Using Launchpad: Open Launchpad. It’s the silver icon in the Dock that looks like a rocket.
Dos Commands For Mac
Just run the command getmac to get the mac addresses. Find an example below.
This command does not show mac addresses for the network connections which are disabled. You can run ncpa.cpl and check which NICs are disabled. Further, I have received comments that this command does not help identify the mac address for a specific device. For example, if I need to get the mac address for my WiFi card, output of getmac command is not helpful. We can use ipconfig command to deal with this.
Get mac address of a remote computer
We can retrieve the mac addressses for a remote computer using nbtstat command.
Example:
Example:
Alternatively, We can run the below command to retrieve the mac addresses of a remote computer.
remote_computer : Full name of the remote computer or IP address
username and password are of the account on the remote computer.
username and password are of the account on the remote computer.
Example:
If you do not want to specify the password, you can skip /p parameter. You will be prompted to enter the password and the command execution will take place after that.
Errors:
Using getmac command we can retrieve the mac addresses of the machines running windows OS only. If you try this for a Linux machine you would get the error “The RPC server is unavailable.”
If you provide incorrect password, the command would fail with the error message “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
Also Read:
Windows CMD commands reference
Windows CMD commands reference
For long time users of the Apple Macintosh, the DOS environment might appear confusing at first. It helps to have experience with the System Terminal and the Command Line. Once set up however a simple shortcut will be all you need.
Installing
This guide will use the 0.74 Mac OSX version which is available for download. The 0.74 release is compiled as a Universal Binary, and will run on PowerPC and Intel based Macs. To install DOSBox, first expand the .ZIP file and copy the contents into a folder like DOSBox. Move this folder into your Applications folder.
Dos Format
Now you need to create a folder to MOUNT as your C: drive and hold your games. The most convenient location for this folder would be your home folder (which can be referenced as ~). In This example we will call our folder DOSGAMES. Inside this folder we can place all of the programs that we want to be available in our emulated DOS environment. Remember that while these files are buried deep in the file system with paths like ~/DOSGAMES/TESTDRV, inside DOSBox they appear as though they reside in the root of their mounted drive letter, so the above example in DOSBox would be located at C:TESTDRV (assuming that ~/DOSGAMES was mounted as C:).
Running DOSBox for the first time
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Double click on the DOSBox icon in Finder to launch DOSBox for the first time. This will cause the DOSBox window to appear. By default no drives are mounted (except the DOSBox default Z:) From here you need to mount your DOSGAMES folder. Assuming you placed it inside your home folder you should be able to run this command to MOUNT the folder.
Now type this command to navigate to your newly mounted drive
Editing DOSBox preferences
After you first run DOSBox, go to the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder and open the newly created file DOSBox 0.74 Preferences. The exact folder name in the Finder may vary, depending on the language you use for OS X.
Mac Dos Emulator
By editing this file, you can set the system settings and initialization values that define your emulated environment. You can also add MOUNT commands to the AUTOEXECsection at the bottom of the configuration files, so that you do not have to type them in every time you start DOSBox.
Ms Dos For Virtual Machine
Running DOSBox with custom config
You can create configuration file for individual games. It can hold specific configuration options and even commands for invoking game in the AUTOEXEC section. Then you can run DOSBox with your config by calling following command from terminal:
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