detecting computer ID from matlab

Hi everyone, I wonder if any of you can tell me how to get the computer ID from within matlab? I want to make a compiled function that will run only on the computer with this ID.... please help

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

MATLAB uses the disk volume label for its licensing purposes, so that would probably work in your application as well.

Here is one way to get it:

[s, out] = dos('vol');
sc = strsplit(out,'\n');
VolLbl = sc{2}(end-9:end);     % ‘VolLbl’ is a (1x9) char array

This will work on Windows. I don’t have access to a Mac or Linux machine, so I don’t know if this would work with them. You might have to write separate versions for those OSs.

Answer 2

[Michael Haderlein]

I think that's what you're looking for: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/16450-get-computer-name-hostname