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You can get the TCP/IP address from the InetAddress.getLocalHost() method.
It's not really burned in and secure, but it is accessible and should be
unique. You could then use other methods in InetAddress to resolve it to a
PC host name in dns perhaps. This all pretty much falls apart if you're
running dhcp though, unless you have fixed leases, or use MS-WINS to feed
your dhcp the machine names.

Warren

Paul Schultz <pasfam@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:375E92D9.DB059828@ix.netcom.com...
> Hi, we're enhancing the security in our client/server application by
> trading digital
> certificates back and forth between the PC clients and the UNIX server
> host.
> We are using these certificates to both authenticate who is making the
> connection
> and which sets of data they are allowed to download. We have everything
> pretty
> much automated, including creation and installation of new certificates.
> The one
> thing we have not been able to figure out how to do is how to verify
> which PC
> the user is connecting from. We tried enumerating through the system
> properties,
> hoping to see a serial number, a MAC address, or anything elst that
> would uniquely
> identify which PC was being used without having to manually install
> "host ID"
> certificates on a PC-by-PC basis. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Schultz
> Chicago Public Schools
> 773-553-1326
> pschultz@csc.cps.k12.il.us
> pasfam@ix.netcom.com
>