Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Can not save the trace file

[Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

How are you trying to open the file on your desktop?

I is probably a matter of permissions. The file is created with owner 
root:root, which you desktop session probably isn't. They way to get 
around this is to change to file ownership, ie `sudo chown 
<user>:<usergroup> <path to desktopfile>'.

Thanx,
Jaap

prashanth joshi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am not able to save the capture file.
>  First I open wiresahrk with the root password.
> And after i capture,
> 1) I give the filter as "http  && tcp.port eq 80"  
> 2) While saving  I click on the  "Displayed"
> 3) I save  the file on desktop
> This I am doing in linux.
> How ever even thogh the files gets saved on the desktop,
> i cant still open the file. I get the error message as " couldn't 
> display /home/prashanth/desktop/file123.
> Please help with what may be wrong in this scenario and what actually is 
> the way to save the file.
> Regards,
> Prashanth