One more thing I tried was to chown nodespy* to root then run it.  This got rid of the "unable to establish a snoop session" error; it shows the action bar at the bottom, but a blank black screen (the ascii/ansi screens do not display), and on the client 
end, the smoothness is gone.  The screens display delayed in chunks of data instead of a smooth stream.

Gandalf
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, running a Mystic BBS. You install it to a Linux OS, and if you don't keep your permissions correct, there's no knowing what it might be swept off to."

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05