On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Sephiroth <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anybody? I'd like to be able to play some of my older Win9X games on the laptop via Wine, but I don't see a tutorial or FAQ page on IPX, much less IPX on an AMD64 build of Linux. What do I have to do to make IPX work in Wine? > Accordign to the Red Alert HOWTO, you need to be running as root for IPX to work... This might be a bad idea, since it enables bugs in Wine (not very likely, but not impossible) / Windows malware to destroy all data on your computer. Some info: (I presume that most games uses the UDP equivalent in IPX, which would probably require a listening socket) http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0202.2/0309.html Gert
