Sorry, de-installing winpcap / NTOP then doing a reboot worked. My bad. As for the event log, quite literally all it states is that it cannot find a file, and occasionally complaining it cant Open the file. Doesn't say which file however.
" Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7000 Date: 17/01/2002 Time: 20:40:13 User: N/A Computer: CHURCHILL Description: The Netgroup Packet Filter service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. " And " Event Type: Error Event Source: Service Control Manager Event Category: None Event ID: 7000 Date: 17/01/2002 Time: 19:12:36 User: N/A Computer: CHURCHILL Description: The Netgroup Packet Filter service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot open the file. For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp. " Anyway, all working now, thanks for the help. Cheers! > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Burton M. Strauss III > Sent: 17 January 2002 22:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Ntop] Problem running NTOP v 2 and 2 alpha 1 on XP > > > 1. Check the version that comes with Ntop's Windows demo > I've used that version on 98SE and 2K, never tried XP. > I don't know that it's been tested on XP. You may be in > for trouble... > Remember that libpcap 0.6.2 predates the XP release... > > You may have to get the source and try to build it. The > base page is http://www.tcpdump.org, but ugh... > > 2. libpcap is invasive. > I strongly recommend rebooting after you uninstall it > and again after the install. > > You could also post the event log messages instead of asking > us to guess what they say... > > -----Burton > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Nigel Brodt-Savage > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 3:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Ntop] Problem running NTOP v 2 and 2 alpha 1 on XP > > > Hi chaps > > Been having problems with running version 2, it seems > that winpcap isnt installed correctly ... > > C:\Program Files\ntop-Win32>ntop > Wait please: ntop is coming up... > 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Initializing IP services... > 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Initializing GDBM... > 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Initializing network devices... > 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 ntop v.2.0.1 [alpha-1] MT [WinNT/2K/XP] > (10/01/2002 > build) > 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Listening on [] > 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Copyright 1998-2002 by Luca Deri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Get the freshest ntop > from http://www.ntop.org/ 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 > Initializing... 17/Jan/2002 19:17:31 Error opening adapter: > Overlapped I/O operation is in progr ess. 17/Jan/2002 > 19:17:31 Please select another interface using the -i flag. > > The beta version of NTOP 2 worked, however when I upgraded to > version 2 final it started doing the above. I'm sure it's the > WinPcap library not installing properly as the event log has > entries saying that it cannot find a Certain file and cant > open another. Does anyone know which files need to be > installed where? And what registry entries Are required? > > I've tried de-installing, then re-installing winpcap a few > times. No joy. > > Cheers > > PC specs > > Athlon 1 Gig on an ABIT KT7-RAID board > 768MB memory > Two SMC 1211 NIC's > > Ntop versions tried, NTOP 2 beta, NTOP 2, NTOP 2 alpaha-1, > Winpcap versions tried 2.02, 2.2 and 2.3 beta > > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > > _______________________________________________ > Ntop mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop > _______________________________________________ Ntop mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listmanager.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop
