Red Alert had a UDP patch to allow LAN play via UDP/IP. 99% of the games out there that used IPX did not get their code changed from IPX to UDP. In fact, Red Alert is the only game that I know of with such a patch. In fact, most games that used IPX for multiplayer wound up only being playable online through tunneling via a service like Heat, Kali, MPlayer, or others. Also, I don't see why you would need to be root to use a protocol installed on the local machine available to all users. That sounds like a major Wine bug. I'll try running LoMSE as root to see if it fixes the problem. If it does, we should file a bug report if one hasn't already been filed. I know for a fact that normal Linux applications don't need root access to use IPX because I have done so in the past.
