On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Gert van den Berg <wine-users@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 This is where POSIX capabilities would be useful: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014 -- -Austin
