Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Luis EG Ontanon wrote: >On 8/12/07, Misc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Luis EG Ontanon wrote: >> Not yet, but this will be minority. And with being able to bring >>all one's personal soft on a usb stick, you can in fact have >>multi-user computers where everyone is just using their own >>portabl

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Guy Harris
Misc wrote: > With computers becoming very cheap, we're at the stage where each > "user" has his/her own computer. Not necessarily in, say, a network lab. ___ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/li

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Luis EG Ontanon
On 8/12/07, Misc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis EG Ontanon wrote: > Not yet, but this will be minority. And with being able to bring all > one's personal soft on a usb stick, you can in fact have multi-user > computers where everyone is just using their own portable soft from > their USB sticks.

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Luis EG Ontanon wrote: >> With computers becoming very cheap, we're at the stage where each >> "user" has his/her own computer. Hence no need to share one machine >> between several users (which usually results in a total mess, not >> resolvable by different AppData folders anyway) :) > >Well, I w

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Ulf Lamping wrote: >> >No, at least I'm talking about existing U3 Wireshark package here. >Where did you found the word "portable"? OK, but we ARE talking about U3 package, not the standard distro. >> Or at least it's "supposed" to be portable, and being advertized as >> designed for USB stic

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Luis EG Ontanon
> With computers becoming very cheap, we're at the stage where each > "user" has his/her own computer. Hence no need to share one machine > between several users (which usually results in a total mess, not > resolvable by different AppData folders anyway) :) Well, I work in an environment (Mobile

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Ulf Lamping
Misc schrieb: > Guy Harris wrote: > > >> Misc wrote: >> >> >>> With truly portable application, you just put it somewhere and it >>> works, with all its prior settings intact. That's what I need. I >>> understand that I'd still have to correct the path in -P switch >>> every time I move Wi

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Ulf Lamping wrote: >Some time ago, John T. Haller from that page asked for a portable >version of Wireshark - exactly for that reason, I've introduced the >-P option ;-) So I have you to thank for this life-saver switch :) >P.S: a portable version could also serve as the "zip only" Win32 >versi

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Guy Harris wrote: >...unless you have multiple users on the machine using the same >application, in which case their settings are shared, whether they >want that or not. (And, yes, that happens even with Windows.) It's >not as if portable is all benefits and no costs > >(There's also the qu

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Guy Harris wrote: >Misc wrote: > >> With truly portable application, you just put it somewhere and it >> works, with all its prior settings intact. That's what I need. I >> understand that I'd still have to correct the path in -P switch >>every time I move Wireshark to a different folder. So I gu

Re: [Wireshark-users] How does one post a message in reply to an existing thread?

2007-08-11 Thread Guy Harris
J P wrote: > How do I post a message in reply to an existing thread using the HTML > List Viewer? To which "HTML List Viewer" are you referring? If you are referring to the mail archives linked to from http://www.wireshark.org/lists/ the answer, at least for the local archives, is "you

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Luis EG Ontanon
And, what if the directory is not writable by an user... (I personally believe it should not be just to avoid single users messing with what others have to use) On 8/12/07, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Misc wrote: > > > Regular (non-U3) portable applications: > > 1. Do not write to Wind

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Guy Harris
Misc wrote: > Regular (non-U3) portable applications: > 1. Do not write to Windows Registry. That is a must. Wireshark doesn't do that (although that's mainly a result of it having been written as a UN*X application). > 2. Do not write to system, AppData, and other folders outside of their > ow

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Ulf Lamping
Guy Harris schrieb: > Ulf Lamping wrote: > > >> No. For an U3 package, you'll need an U3 stick to work properly. The U3 >> system will set some special U3 environment variables and that's the >> problem here. >> > > So how are non-U3 portable applications produced for Windows? Are > spe

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Guy Harris
Misc wrote: > With truly portable application, you just put it somewhere and it > works, with all its prior settings intact. That's what I need. I > understand that I'd still have to correct the path in -P switch every > time I move Wireshark to a different folder. So I guess it's not TRULY > PORT

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Guy Harris wrote: >Ulf Lamping wrote: > >> No. For an U3 package, you'll need an U3 stick to work properly. >>The U3 system will set some special U3 environment variables and >>that's the problem here. > >So how are non-U3 portable applications produced for Windows? Are >special builds done, o

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Ulf Lamping wrote: > >You can use -P command line option to adjust the personal folders, >see >http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/ChCustCommandLine.html > Thank you!!! I actually searched wireshark help guide (and Google, and wireshark wiki, and a bunch of other palces) but couldn't

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Guy Harris
Ulf Lamping wrote: > No. For an U3 package, you'll need an U3 stick to work properly. The U3 > system will set some special U3 environment variables and that's the > problem here. So how are non-U3 portable applications produced for Windows? Are special builds done, or is the application othe

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Ulf Lamping
Misc schrieb: > Ulf Lamping wrote: > > >>> >>> >> What does Help/About/Folders show? >> >> Regards, ULFL >> > > "Personal configuration" and "Personal Plugins" point to AppData under > User Profile (in Documents & Settings). And that is precisely what the > problem is. How can I p

Re: [Wireshark-users] Portable Wireshark Settings

2007-08-11 Thread Misc
Ulf Lamping wrote: >> >> >What does Help/About/Folders show? > >Regards, ULFL "Personal configuration" and "Personal Plugins" point to AppData under User Profile (in Documents & Settings). And that is precisely what the problem is. How can I point it to my USB drive? "Global Configuration" an

Re: [Wireshark-users] Windows XP: tracing of packets on loopback-interface

2007-08-11 Thread Guy Harris
Stephen Fisher wrote: > On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:34:04PM +0200, Franz Edler wrote: > >> is there any possibility to trace packets on loopback-interface of my >> WindowsXP machine. > > See the "Windows" section at > http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Loopback ...and note that Windows doesn'

Re: [Wireshark-users] Windows XP: tracing of packets on loopback-interface

2007-08-11 Thread Stephen Fisher
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:34:04PM +0200, Franz Edler wrote: > is there any possibility to trace packets on loopback-interface of my > WindowsXP machine. See the "Windows" section at http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/Loopback > On Linux e.g. I can trace on "any" interfaces, but this I canno

[Wireshark-users] Windows XP: tracing of packets on loopback-interface

2007-08-11 Thread Franz Edler
Hi, is there any possibility to trace packets on loopback-interface of my WindowsXP machine. I want to trace IP packets sent from one application to the other (using different ports). On Linux e.g. I can trace on "any" interfaces, but this I cannot with Wireshark on Windows XP, right? -franz __