RE: Suggestion for Docs

["Rob Nicholls" <robert () robnicholls co uk>]

I see that "c:\\Windows\\System32\\net.exe" has been hardcoded into your
code; some people don't have Windows on C drive though. I'm not sure if you
can use %windir% to get around this or if you have to identify %windir%
first and then put that into your ShellExecute.

A simple GUI that allows people to start WinPcap and change WinPcap's
settings might be more useful, as some people may decide that they'd like to
go with the recommended settings after all and might not be confident enough
to play around with registry keys (and would otherwise have to uninstall and
reinstall WinPcap in order to be presented with the option again).

Or we could take away the user's ability to choose whether to start WinPcap
automatically and make that the mandatory default option unless they're
prepared to edit the registry themselves. Or is that too evil? ;-)

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pattrick [mailto:mpattrick () rhinovirus org] 
Sent: 14 January 2010 11:50
To: Rob Nicholls
Cc: nmap-dev () insecure org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Docs

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Rob Nicholls <robert () robnicholls co uk>
wrote:
> The recommendation to fix the issue, however, might be more 
> complicated as there are several ways of doing it: run Nmap/Zenmap at 
> least once using Run as Administrator, or modify a registry key and 
> reboot, or run the command "net start npf" using an elevated Command 
> Prompt. I wouldn't like to recommend that people always run Nmap/Zenmap as
Administrator.

Attached is a small program which will run 'net start npf' from an elevated
command.

-M


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