[Wine] IPX and AMD64 not mixing?

[Austin English]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:05 AM,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> "Sephiroth" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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.

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-Austin