On Friday 17 Oct 2003 3:12 pm, Microsoft information wrote: > hello > > I use the ethereal with winpcap 3.01 alpha on my XP Pro box as > administrator and my interface is detected automatically and displayed in > my capture options interface tab. Works fine as admin. Then I can log in > as "user" not in Administrator's group and the interface is in the same > tab. However, if I start from a fresh boot on the unit, and don't open > ethereal first as administrator, when I access the capture options as a > regular user, the interface is not detected, and cannot be found. > Is this a windows fault, or just a simple configuration overlook on my > part? windows! ahhh...
http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.16 Q 5.16: I'm running Ethereal on Windows; why does some network interface on my machine not show up in the list of interfaces in the "Interface:" field in the dialog box popped up by "Capture->Start", and/or why does Ethereal give me an error if I try to capture on that interface? A: If you are running Ethereal on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server, and this is the first time you have run a WinPcap-based program (such as Ethereal, or Tethereal, or WinDump, or Analyzer, or...) since the machine was rebooted, you need to run that program from an account with administrator privileges; once you have run such a program, you will not need administrator privileges to run any such programs until you reboot. ... -- Richard Urwin
