Re: Error Creating the per-user configuration directory

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:10:56PM -0600, Bernard Luksich wrote:
> We had used your software on this machine before with no problems.  So we
> decided to get the latest version 4.76.  We uninstalled the previous version
> and downloaded nmap-4.76-setup.exe.  
>
> Where did it get the idea to install on an "H:" drive?  We can find no
> documentation on where this bogus information is kept or is coming from.  

That is the drive of your home directory, according to Python. It's
found by reading the value of the HOME environment variable, if I
remember correctly. If that drive doesn't exist then HOME may be wrongly
set. Check your environment variables (Control Panel, System, Advanced,
Environment Variables) and remove it if it is wrong.

The files Zenmap is trying to create are the per-user configuration
files, documented at http://nmap.org/book/zenmap-files.html#zenmap-user-conf.

> More specifics, the error claims it is trying to create
> "H:\users\bernie\.zenmap" and that it can not find the path specified
> u'H:\\' notice the letter "u" in front there.

The u in front just means that the file name is a Unicode string, which
is necessary when accessing files with non-ASCII names.

David Fifield

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