Thanks for your reply.
Yes I meant the file server exports /usrlocal/bin to the clients /usr/local/bin. Ethereal is in this directory.
The /dev and /devices on the client is accessable (rw) to root only. ROOT and USER can't capture packets on the client; permissions denied. When I start ethereal it doesn't display the interfaces (hme, qfe) in the "interface" drop down menu.
bob h
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:39 PM
To: Hauptmann Bob-P18081
Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.9.16
On Nov 21, 2003, at 2:17 PM, 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.
Presumably you meant "the file server *shares* (or *exports*) the
/usr/local/bin directory over NFS to several other Solaris 8 machines"
- a file server client NFS-mounts a file system, a file server exports
or shares a file system.
I.e., "/usr/local/bin" is a local file system on the file server.
> 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
I.e., the permissions on "/dev/hme" *on the machine on which you're
running Ethereal* allow you (not root, *you*) to open it for reading
and writing?
If not, then the permissions aren't valid for allowing users to capture
while running Ethereal as themselves - you have to run it as root.
> and everything is setup properly. Ethereal runs properly on my file
> server.
Then either
1) "/dev/hme" is readable and writable by whoever's running Ethereal
(although that will, I think, not let you capture in promiscuous mode -
which will, I think, mean you won't see outgoing traffic);
2) Ethereal's set-UID to root, and the machine that's mounting
"/usr/local/bin" is mounting it "nosuid" so that the set-UID bit
doesn't have any effect on that machine;
3) you're running it as root on your file server, but not on the
machine that's mounting "/usr/local/bin" over NFS.
> What could be the problem on the NFS'd machine? Is ethereal supported
> across NFS?
Ethereal has no idea whether it's running from a binary on an NFS
server or not. It works just fine on Solaris 8 when running from an
NFS server (I did that for years when I was working at Network
Appliance).
