When I try to run:
ping www.google.com
I get the following error:
ping: icmp open socket: Permission denied
Running with sudo
doesn't make a difference.
bashwindows 10windows-10-v1607windows-subsystem-for-linux
When I try to run:
ping www.google.com
I get the following error:
ping: icmp open socket: Permission denied
Running with sudo
doesn't make a difference.
Best Answer
Update: This issue has been fixed since the Windows 10 Creators Update (April 2017). Bash on Windows no longer requires administrator rights to execute the ping command.
"The Windows TCP/IP stack requires admin privileges to open RAW sockets for security measures" [source]. See MSDN post. This only applies to low-level network protocols such as ICMP used by
ping
.Running your "Bash on Windows" shell as administrator should allow the ping command to work. Simply right-click it's shortcut and select the option:
This will only work for the single session opened with these rights.
If other commands also can't connect to the internet (e.g.
apt-get
,wget
) then you might also need to look at Internet access not working in Windows Subsystem for Linux.