On Mar 2, 2013, at 11:08 PM, Jim Aragon <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> my PC sent an SMB query for a file or directory called ".wireshark" in my home directory,
Wireshark stores its preferences file, and a bunch of other configuration information, in a directory named .wireshark under your home directory.
> The .wireshark file does not exist ... However, Wireshark did not display any error dialog
If the directory doesn't exist, Wireshark will just use the default preference settings, etc.; the absence of such a directory is not an error. If you change a preference, Wireshark will create the directory if it needs to store a file in it.
> I'd really like to go back to Wireshark being passive and not causing any network traffic to be sent.
Don't have your home directory on a file server.
