Wireshark · Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] Wireshark Causing SMB Query

[Jim Aragon <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wireshark used to be completely passive, as long as 
network name resolution was turned off. Last week I was using Wireshark
PortableApps version 1.8.5 at work on a Windows XP computer, and I
noticed that every time I started capturing, my PC sent an SMB query for
a file or directory called ".wireshark" in my home directory,
which is on a NetApp filer. The .wireshark file does not exist, so the
NetApp filer returned STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND. The query and
response were repeated four times over a period of 20 ms. However,
Wireshark did not display any error dialog and capturing functioned
normally. This happened every time I started or re-started live
capturing, not just when Wireshark was first launched.

Does anyone know why Wireshark is now looking for this file and what is
supposed to be in it? A trace file showing the SMB queries and responses
is at

https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/a3d0e503cdad

I'd really like to go back to Wireshark being passive and not causing any
network traffic to be sent.

Jim