Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal in Windows 2000 Terminal Session

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From: "Loris Degioanni" <loris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:50:53 +0200
> 2.  Tethereal, which runs fine on the console, gives me:
>
> tethereal: The capture session could not be initiated (Error opening
> adapter: The operation completed successfully.).  Please check that you
> have the proper interface specified.
>
> (in TS session)
> \Device\Packet_{92ECA62D-344F-4502-9C04-A2F659FD9C3B}
> \Device\Packet_{E966771E-5917-49B8-82FD-6F84BF6A8198}
> \Device\Packet_NdisWanIp
>
> (on Console)
> \Device\Packet_{92ECA62D-344F-4502-9C04-A2F659FD9C3B}
> \Device\Packet_{E966771E-5917-49B8-82FD-6F84BF6A8198}
> \Device\Packet_NdisWanIp
>

This is a known bug due to the weird way WinNT handles the event names under
remote connections. It will be fixed it in the next release of winpcap.

Loris.