Lucent Technologies Ethereal manual Windows folders, Windows profiles, Plugins folder

Configuration (and other) Files and

Folders

hosts	Ethereal uses the files	listed in Table A.1, “Configuration
	files and folders overview” to translate IPv4 and IPv6 ad-
	dresses into names.
	This file has the same format as the usual /etc/hosts file in
	unix systems.
	An example is:
	# Comments must be prepended by the # sign!
	192.168.0.1 homeserver
	The settings from this file are read in at program start and
	never written by Ethereal.
ipxnets	Ethereal uses the files	listed in Table A.1, “Configuration
	files and folders overview” to translate IPX network numbers
	into names.
	An example is:
	C0.A8.2C.00	HR
	c0-a8-1c-00	CEO
	00:00:BE:EF	IT_Server1
	110f	FileServer3
	The settings from this file are read in at program start and
	never written by Ethereal.
plugins folder	Ethereal searches for plugins in the directories listed in Ta-
	ble A.1, “Configuration files and folders overview”. They are
	searched in the order listed.
temp folder	If you start a new capture and don't specify a filename for it,
	Ethereal uses this directory to place that file in, see Sec-
	tion 4.6, “Capture files and file modes”.

A.1. Windows folders

Here you will find some details about the folders used in Ethereal on different Windows versions.

As already mentioned, you can find the currently used folders in the About Ethereal dialog.

A.1.1. Windows profiles

Windows uses some special directories to store user configuration files in, named the user profile. This can be confusing, as the default directory location changed from version to version and might also be different for english and internationalized versions of windows.

Note!

If you upgraded to a new windows version, your profile might be kept in the former location, so the defaults mentioned here might not apply.

The following will try to guide you to the right place where to look for Ethereals profile data.

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