When needing to find your HostName and MAC address for creating a floating license or if KeyShot supports needs it to help make a license for you.
Finding your HostName and MAC address on a Windows1. Open Command Prompt window 2. Type ipconfig /all and press Enter 3. Your HostName and MAC address will be show within the text. 1. Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Your HostName 2. Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-11-22-33-44-55 4. HostName is your computers namd and Physica Address would be your MAC address. 1. NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled - for the correct adapter.
What your Command Propt Window looks like when looking for your HostName and MAC address.
C:\Users\UserName>ipconfig /all Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : Your HostName [No-Spaces] Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No Ethernet adapter Ethernet 3: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : This the the Network Card name you are using. Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00 [This is your MAC address] DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : This is your IPv6 IP Address IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : This is your IP Address Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Date your IP was obtained Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : When it will refresh with your router Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : IP Address of your network router DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : IP of router giving out IP address DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : IP for DNS servers can be more than 1 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled [This should be enabled or wrong card] |
Finding your HostName and MAC address on a Macintosh1. Open the Terminal application 2. Type HostName and press Enter 3. Your HostName will be displayed under your HostName command. 1. Username-MacBook-Pro.local is your HostName 4. Now type ifconfig and press Enter 5. Your MAC address will be shown 1. ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 is your MAC address 6. Take a Screenshot of the Terminal window and send it to us.
What your Terminal Window looks like when looking for your HostName and MAC address.
Username-MacBook-Pro:~ Username$ HostName Username-MacBook-Pro.local Username-MacBook-Pro:~ Username$ ifconfig en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=400<CHANNEL_IO> ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 [This is your MAC address] inet6 This is your IPv6 IP Address inet This is your IPv4 IP Address nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD> media: autoselect status: active |