Re: Wireshark Causing SMB Query

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Mar 2, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Jim Aragon <Jim () agdatasystems com> wrote:

> my PC sent an SMB query for a file or directory called ".wireshark" in my home directory,

Wireshark stores its preferences file, and a bunch of other configuration information, in a directory named .wireshark 
under your home directory.

> The .wireshark file does not exist ... However, Wireshark did not display any error dialog

If the directory doesn't exist, Wireshark will just use the default preference settings, etc.; the absence of such a 
directory is not an error.  If you change a preference, Wireshark will create the directory if it needs to store a file 
in it.

> I'd really like to go back to Wireshark being passive and not causing any network traffic to be sent.

Don't have your home directory on a file server.
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