[Bug 16674] Battle for middle earth2: No network multiplayer possible

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16674





--- Comment #7 from Florian <mcflow-forum at gmx.net>  2009-01-04 07:20:26 ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> Can you try to set up your /etc/hosts file in a way that makes your hostname
> point to your network address instead of loopback and see if that fixes it?
> 

The Problem is now, that I do not have a second machine to test it again. I can
only test it starting the application with a second wineprefix and a different
CD Key. I don't know if that makes sense... I rather don't think so.

At new Year's Eve I had a friend here. He used Windows, I used wine without the
commit that I think to be a regression. First my hostname pointed to loopback.
We were not able to see each other in the game list. Then I changed /etc/hosts
so that it contained my local IP (192.168.13.90, if that is of any mean... he
had *.91).
'hostname -i' returned it as well ;). Then in the multiplayer menu he was able
to see me, read my chat messages but not able to join my opened games. I did
not see him or his messages or his games in the multiplayermode. To exclude a
problem with his firewall he joined a hamachi network and we had luck there
were some people and he could play with them.
The game seems not to provide a "join by ip" feature.
Battlefield 1942 worked fine, although /etc/hosts contained "127.0.0.1" as my
IP. We could play it very fine.

Another note:
When I set /etc/hosts to '127.0.0.1 mymachinename', I was able to play the game
in multiplayer mode with myself, using two different wine prefixes. When I set
it to my local IP that did not work. I was not able to see the player using the
other wineprefix.

When I use a wine version with that commit the situation is like in the first
post of this bugreport. I try to get some terminal output from the winsock
component.

I hope you understand the situations I described... If not you can send me a
message in IRC. I'm "McFlow" there.


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