RE: help about Nmap

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

The error message is unlikely to be related to WinPcap, as Nmap should still
run but either display that it can't find WinPcap 3.1 or higher (IIRC) or if
it finds WinPcap but the driver hasn't been started then it will display
dnet: Failed to open device eth0 (or whatever device it's trying to use).

As for requiring Admin rights on Vista, this isn't entirely true, the driver
just needs to be loaded by an Admin at some point before you use Nmap. You
can do this manually using an elevated command prompt (e.g. running the
command "net start npf" to start the driver or simply running Nmap once from
there), or you can change a registry setting so that it's started when
Windows starts up (useful if you keep UAC enabled or run Vista with a
standard user). For more info, check out
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2007/q1/0195.html

I suspect the error is caused by a lack of the Visual C++ 2008 runtimes, and
running the vcredist_x86.exe from the zip file will solve the problem. This
is probably because 4.68 is the first version of Nmap that was compiled
using Visual C++ 2008; older versions used inline threading and relied upon
MSVCRT.dll (which is present on virtually all Windows systems). Once
installed, you can use future zip file versions of Nmap as usual (until we
start using a new version of Visual C++, but that's probably a few years
away).


Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Leininger [mailto:rilian4 () hotmail com]
> Sent: 03 August 2008 07:48
> To: Tran Xin; nmap-dev () insecure org
> Subject: RE: help about Nmap
>
> Do you have administrative rights to your system? I know vista requires
> it and I run w/ admin priveleges in xp.
> Did you install the winpcap drivers that came w/ nmap?
>
> -Aaron
>
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:38:04 -0700
> > From: nhoc.lun8x () yahoo com
> > Subject: help about Nmap
> > To: nmap-dev () insecure org
> >
> > hello you
> > I download nmap-4.68-win32.zip .. I use Windows XP sp2
> > I run nmap in cmd but it not run And have a message "The system
> cannot execute the specified program"
> > Help me !!
> >
> >
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