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2. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by euphoric (admin) Mar 09, 2010
• 1818 views

How about the serial number of the first local hard drive (C:)?

What you'll have to figure out is what to do when their drive "crashes" and they "can't recover anything."

I don't know from where the following originates, but it's Windows-only. This is also probably old and duplicates something in the standard library.

--include dll.e 
--include machine.e 
--include get.e 
 
constant 
   kernel32 = open_dll( "kernel32.dll" ), 
   xGetVolumeInfo = define_c_func( kernel32, "GetVolumeInformationA", 
		   {C_POINTER, C_POINTER, C_UINT, C_POINTER, C_POINTER, 
		    C_POINTER, C_POINTER, C_UINT }, C_INT) 
 
global function getVolSerial( object root_dir ) 
-- Input: A string that contains the root directory of the volume to be described. 
--        A trailing backslash is required. For example, you would specify 
--        \\MyServer\MyShare as "\\\\MyServer\\MyShare\\", or the C drive as "C:\\". 
-- Output: Volume Serial Number 
 
   atom rootPathName, volSerNum 
   sequence ret_val 
 
	if atom(root_dir) then 
		root_dir = root_dir & ":\\" 
	end if 
	 
   rootPathName    = allocate_string( root_dir ) 
   volSerNum       = allocate( 4 ) 
 
   if not c_func( xGetVolumeInfo, { rootPathName, NULL, NULL, volSerNum, 
				   NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL } ) then 
      --puts( 1, "\n**xGetVolumeInfo failed in function getVolSerial**\n" ) 
      --puts(1, root_dir) 
   end if 
 
   ret_val = { peek4u( volSerNum ) } 
   free( rootPathName ) 
   free( volSerNum ) 
   return ret_val 
end function 

4. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Mar 13, 2010
• 1631 views

Or you could be lazy and pull the information from the output of ipconfig.exe

6. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Mar 13, 2010
• 1573 views

Use the /all switch to get the physical address of the NIC.

Windows IP Configuration 
 
        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : red-beast 
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . : 
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown 
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No 
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No 
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : xxx.xxxxxxx.xxt.xx 
 
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: 
 
        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : xxx.xxxxxxx.xxx.xx 
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC 
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF 
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes 
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes 
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 000.000.0.000 
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 000.000.0.0 
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 000.000.0.0 
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 00.0.000.00 
                                            00.0.000.000 
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, 14 March 2010 2:29:22 AM 
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Monday, 15 March 2010 2:29:22 AM 

8. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by petelomax Mar 13, 2010
• 1564 views

Windows IP Configuration 
 
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : FF-FF-FF-FF-FF-FF 

Understood, I got it a little wrong above, but still when I disconnect, ipconfig gives me nothing. If hacker's app always needs an internet connection then no problem, or accept that no internet=no app. I'm not sure what happens with mobile broadband or wifi either. With some certainty, I would not be impressed if I made a shopping list at home on a netbook, and it stopped working when I got to the shop.

10. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by petelomax Mar 13, 2010
• 1565 views

Yes, my dongle connects via a dial-up adapter.

12. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by petelomax Mar 13, 2010
• 1535 views

I just pulled it out and on the back it says HUAWEI Mobile Broadband HDSPA USB Slider. A Christmas present, so I've only had it a couple of months, and of course silly me it is indeed prepaid mobile broadband.

Regards, Pete

14. Re: Advice wanted!

• Posted by hacker Mar 16, 2010
• 1310 views

Thanks Greg, this is useful. I was moving away from the hardware ID approach for the same reasons you mention. An alternative would be to get the time and date at which a system file was created (and convert it to seconds). The probability would be very high that this would be a number unique to that particular PC. However, I think I prefer your suggestions. Thanks again.