[Wine] How to run mulitple instances of app, each for unique IP?

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 13:41:41 CDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:30 PM, maxxjr<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> John Drescher wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:10 PM, maxxjr<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>>
>> Wouldn't this be a question for the application's support and not
>> wine? I mean usually an application will have some configuration on
>> what ip address it listens to not the os controlling what ip address.
>>
>> John
>
>
> When I start the application up under wine, it pulls the IP address it listens on automatically from somewhere.  When I first tried it, it pulled up a 127.1.0.1 type address, since this is what was in my /etc/hosts file for my hostname.  Which I changed the hosts file so that the hostname was associated with the network IP 192.168.1.x, the application pulled this new IP address up.
>

So there is no way to set this in the application. You may want to
check to see if it creates a registry entry. Once you get that solved
use Austin's advice about prefixes.

John



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