Wscript.Echo \"IP Address: \" & objItem.IPAddress\n<\/pre>\nSo what\u2019s the problem? Well, the IPAddress property is actually stored as an array; that\u2019s because it\u2019s possible for multiple IP addresses to be assigned to a single network adapter. You\u2019re treating IPAddress as though it was a string or numeric variable and it\u2019s not; an array is a totally different datatype. Hence the Type Mismatch error. This is the same kind of error you get with this script, which tries to multiply dog times cat:<\/p>\n
A = \"dog\"\nB = \"cat\"\nC = A * B\n<\/pre>\nSo now that we know the problem, what\u2019s the solution? It\u2019s actually pretty easy: you just need to loop through the IPAddress array and echo all the values found there. Admittedly, most of the time there will only be one IP address per network adapter, but that doesn\u2019t matter: whether there\u2019s one IP address, 100 IP addresses, or even 0 IP addresses you still need to use a For Each loop to iterate all the items in the array. A simplified version of your script would thus look like this:<\/p>\n
strComputer = \".\"\nSet objWMIService = GetObject _\n (\"winmgmts:\\\\\" & strComputer & \"\\root\\cimv2\")\nSet colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery _\n (\"Select * From Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration \" & _\n \"Where IPEnabled = True\")\nFor Each objItem in colItems\n Wscript.Echo \"Caption: \" & objItem.Caption\n For Each objAddress in objItem.IPAddress\n Wscript.Echo \"IP Address: \" & objAddress\n Next\nNext\n<\/pre>\nBonus answer to a question you didn\u2019t even ask<\/b>: So how did we know that IPAddress is stored as an array? Well, the Type Mismatch error message gave us a pretty good clue, and then we verified that by opening up Wbemtest and locating the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration class. As you can see from the following screenshot, IP address is, indeed, stored as an array:<\/p>\n
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