Re: Fail error of nmap on Win Vista

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:40:36PM -0500, Santiago Monterrosa wrote:
> Hi there, I've just installed nmap on my machine, which is running Windows
> Vista, I installed nmap along with zenmap, ncat, ndiff, and I've got the
> following error message
>
> Starting Nmap 4.90RC1 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-06-29 23:17 Central
> Daylight Time (Mexico)
>
> NSE: Loaded 0 scripts for scanning.
>
> Initiating Ping Scan at 23:17
>
> dnet: Failed to open device eth4
>
> QUITTING!
> After following command: nmap -O -v 201.149.5.34
>
> the command was executed on both command line and Zenmap interface and the
> error message still the same, I even used other different options, looks the
> cause is the interface but is not clear to me how to fix it.

Make sure you are running as an administrator. I think you right-click
on the icon and select "Run as administrator" or something like that.

David Fifield

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