Hi, if your app needs access to TCP/IP ports < 1024 and you are running as regular user (running wine as root is not recommended), you will need to do something like described in http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/10735/linux-allowing-an-user-to-listen-to-a-port-below-1024 The simpler alternative would be to choose ports above 1024, if you can. Furthermore you might need to do "winetricks vcrun6", as wine doesn't implement mfc. If it still doesn't work, upgrade to latest wine version, run from command line and post terminal output.