R: [Winpcap-users] Administrator privileges in order to use winpcap?

[Davide Schiera]

Hi,
you can also try to run from a prompt the command "net start npf" (or launch
a script that execute this command).

Ciao


Davide 

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org 
> [mailto:winpcap-users-bounces at winpcap.org] Per conto di Bryan Kadzban
> Inviato: venerdì 9 giugno 2006 13.07
> A: winpcap-users at winpcap.org
> Oggetto: Re: [Winpcap-users] Administrator privileges in 
> order to use winpcap?
> 
> Eduardo Escudero Sánchez wrote:
> > The problem is that i would like not to have the need of 
> having admin 
> > privileges in order to use my application.
> 
> Do what Ethereal 0.99.0 gives you the option to do.  In the 
> installer, it asks whether you want to start the NPF driver 
> at system startup time.
> This allows non-admins to capture packets because starting 
> NPF (and maybe netmon) is the only thing that requires admin 
> privileges.
> 
> To do this manually, go into device manager, select "show 
> non-present devices", find "NetGroup Packet Filter", go to 
> its properties, find whatever tab has the "startup" dropdown 
> on it, and change that from "Demand" to "Automatic".  You 
> also might have to do the same with the "Network Monitor" 
> driver, although I don't know for sure.  (WinPcap 3.1 needs 
> this driver to capture from PPP-style interfaces, though one 
> of its dependent DLLs always tries to start it.  Not sure 
> about older or newer versions.)
> 
> But:  Is there a reason you're using the packet.dll 
> functions?  Those are not necessarily going to be kept 
> compatible in the future.  If you don't need packet.dll 
> specific stuff, then it's much better to use wpcap.dll (the 
> libpcap-style interface), because that *will* remain compatible.
> 
>