so i want to find the mac address on a computer at school (theres many. doesnt matter which one) how would i do this when system preferences is blocked?
Why would you want the MAC address of a system? It's of no use except at Layer 2.
In the terminal type "ifconfig enX | grep ether"
The X is either 0 (ethernet) or 1 (airport)
How about the Network Utility app in Utilities?
That is, unless you are doing something you are not supposed to be doing...
Yeah he said he couldn't access System Preferences. Anyways why do you need the MAC Address for?
-iGrant
He only said macfilters, which I assume he means MAC filters. Either way, he's being shady, so I'm dropping out of this help request. If he can't give a legit reason for something like this, it really sounds like he's trying to bypass security so I'll let him sort it out.