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.
