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 Windows

1. 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 Macintosh


1. 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