Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-bugs] [Bug 375] New: Crashes when saving to network

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From: "Olivier Biot (Ethereal)" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:45:39 +0200
Hi list,
UNC paths without assigned drive letter are problematic in several applications (e.g., the Poseidon UML tool doesn't "see" these and double-clicking one will only launch the application but not open the file on that "nonletter share").
It is possible that it's a GLib/GTK+ bug (or an undocumented "feature"), but I cannot test this for now... 

Best regards,

Olivier
----- Original Message ----- Subject: [Ethereal-bugs] [Bug 375] New: Crashes when saving to network sharewithout drive letter mapping 



http://bugs.ethereal.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=375

          Summary: Crashes when saving to network share without drive
                   letter mapping
          Product: Ethereal
          Version: 0.10.12
         Platform: PC
       OS/Version: Windows XP
           Status: NEW
         Severity: Minor
         Priority: Low
        Component: Ethereal
       AssignedTo: ethereal-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx
       ReportedBy: adaig90@xxxxxxxxxxx


Build information:
Version 0.10.12 (C) 1998-2005 Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Compiled with GTK+ 2.4.14, with GLib 2.4.7, with WinPcap (version unknown), 
with libz 1.2.3, with libpcre 4.4, with Net-SNMP 5.2.1.2, with ADNS.
Running with WinPcap version 3.1 beta4 (packet.dll version 3, 1, 0, 24), based on libpcap version 0.8.3 on Windows XP Service Pack 1, build 2600. 

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Windows XP allows users to create shortcuts (in "My Network Places") to remote shares without actually assigning a drive letter. The Ethereal "Open" and "Save As" dialogs do not appear to allow browsing to shares that do not have a drive 
letter assigned.
More importantly, however, Ethereal crashes when trying to save a trace file 
that has been directly opened from a network share with no drive letter.

To recreate this crash:
1. Add a network place under "My Network Places" or use an existing one, just make sure it is not located on a server that you already have mapped to a drive 
letter.
2. Place a .cap file into the share
3. From the Windows Explorer, navigate to the network share and double-click the 
.cap file. The trace will open in Ethereal.
4. Select "Save As..." from the File menu and Ethereal will immediately crash to 
the desktop with no error messages.

Of course the obvious work-around to this is to map a drive letter to the
network share, but it would be nice if Ethereal properly handled non-mapped shares.