So I got through the setup of pulled pork with no real problems. I finally get to the last step of running the Snort self-test using the command line
d:winidssnortbinsnort -c d:\winids\snort\etc\snort.conf -l d:\winids\snort\log -i1 -T
It comes back with an error
ERROR: d:\winids\snort\etc\snort.conf(507) => Unable to open address file d:\winids\snort\rules\white_list.rules, Error: No such file or directory Fatal Error, Quitting..
Not sure what I messed up exactly.