I am looking for the name of my MAC machine to possibly use in a script.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Chuck van der Linden <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Oct 20, 7:47 am, Joe Fl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is a ruby question but how do I get the name of my MAC using
> > ruby.
> >
> > I have found:
> >
> > require 'socket'
> > puts Socket.gethostname
> >
> > (not what I am looking for)
> >
> > puts ENV["COMPUTERNAME"]
> >
> > puts ENV['USERDOMAIN']
> > puts ENV['LOGONSERVER']
> >
> > they all return nil
> >
>
> I don't know if any of those are set (surely I doubt 'domain' or
> 'loginserver' since I think those are unique to a system that is
> logging into a windows domain or active-directory.)
>
> You might try HOSTNAME
>
> Are you looking for the name set for the system under networking
> settings on the WINS tab, or under sharing settings for Bonjour?  or
> set somewhere else?
>
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