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<A title=graeme.davies@xtra.co.nz
href="mailto:graeme.davies@xtra.co.nz">Graeme & Julianne</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=winpcap-users@winpcap.org
href="mailto:winpcap-users@winpcap.org">winpcap-users@winpcap.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 23, 2007 8:43
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Winpcap-users] Wincap 4.0 is
incompatible with Vista User AccountControl</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In order to run Winpcap 4.0 (even as a member of
administrators group) you have to turn Vista's User Account Control off (refer
Control Panel - User Accounts). The documentation states that v4.0 works with
Vista, but doesn't mention anything about having to turn UAC off first. I'm
not sure whether this is a bug, or simply a bit of documention that was
overlooked. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is not completely true. You don't need to turn
UAC off (e.g. my test machines have UAC on), *but* you need to install WinPcap
and run the applications (at least the first one that starts the kernel driver)
with administrative privileges *and* in an elevated prompt (e.g. running the
application/command line by right-clicking and using "run as
administrator").</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regarding the command line tool "runas.exe", I
don't know if it actually runs the application with elevated privileges or not.
I just had a quick test (runas .... cmd.exe), and it doesnt seem to create an
elevated privileges shell. I need to look into these things more
thoroughly.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hope it helps</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>GV</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Attempting to (pre)start the winpcap driver with
the runas command (eg runas /user:<admin user> "net start npf") didn't
help. 8-(.</FONT></DIV>
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