On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:05 AM, <perryh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Sephiroth" <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> You are right though, [IP ports] 1024+ are usable by normal users. >> I cannot understand for the life of me why they even bothered >> putting in IPX support if it's broken and useless. > > Probably because someone expected that it would be used only for > mounting disk shares from Windows/Samba servers, or for exporting > disk shares via Samba: since only root can mount or export, only > root needs to be able to bind to an IPX socket. > > It might be worth checking your distro's docs, to see if there may > be a configuration option. > > And file a bug with them, so they know people need IPX for gaming. -- -Austin
