Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.9.16

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:33:18 -0600 (CST)
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Hauptmann Bob-P18081 wrote:

> I have a Solaris 8 file server that I added ethereal 0.9.16 to using the pkgadd function. The file server NFS mounts the /usr/local/bin directory to several other Solaris8 machines. When I execute ethereal (ethereal -i hme0) on the NFS'd machine, I get /dev/hme permissions not set. It looks like permissions are valid and everything is setup properly. Ethereal runs properly on my file server. 
> What could be the problem on the NFS'd machine? Is ethereal supported across NFS?

The user performing the capture needs read _and_ write access to /dev/hme
(or any other network interface device) under Solaris.  Is this the case
on your system?  Normally, the only user with read/write access to this
type of device is root.