[Wine] Two problems: no network for gaming; DVDShrink autorun

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Thu Nov 17 22:07:50 CST 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:56 -0500, saurian wrote: 
> Wolfgang Klein wrote:
> See if the game has command line arguments that allows you to specify
> the port. If it does, try a couple of different ports. (Ports in the
> range of 10300 through 10399 seem to be pretty free and available in
> the port scheme) By using a command line argument, you are telling the
> game not to touch any default ports that it may use, and possibly wind
> up freeing up the net problems.
> 
> If you cant change the ports it uses, then see if you can determine
> what ports the game wants to use then check if there is a service on
> your linux box already using it, that you could possibly dissable.

Also note that in Linux no application can use ports less than 1024
unless run as root.  Since you shouldn't be running Wine as root, an
application that attempts to use a port under 1024 will run into
trouble.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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