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Hi to everybody, I'm writing to ask your help in playing LAN games with Red alert 2. some data: I'm using wine 1.2.1 on Ubuntu 10.04, with kernel 2.6.32-27-generic the game is Red alert 2, with patch 1.006. What I would like to do is playing LAN games, using the UDP patch given at understorm at http://www.understorm.net/downloads/ts_ra2_lanpatch_1_00.zip What I made is copy the wsock32.dll file in the same directory where the Ra2.exe file is (the name of the executable file I play with), but it doesn't seem to work (it should, since I know for sure the patch runs on Windows, and I&...

...on the first page of Google results...), but it requires Wine to be run as root. Since I do not have IPX installed and I'm not normally in a mood to recompile my kernel, and the Windows users that I want to play against do want to install IPX, I downloaded a patched wsock32.dll from http://www.understorm.net/ . According to the site, it lets the games multiplayer run over UDP. Without the patched DLL, RA2 does not enter the LAN screen, while with the patch it actually enters it. I cannot see games though. Now the question: When setting the override for wsock32 in WineCfg, Wine warns that Bad Thin...

...chines but they don't see each other in the network menu. Also when one player opens a game it cannot be seen in the other machines. I have already checked out the appdb [3], but did find a helpful comment. Has someone got the network play to work? Best regards Christoph Korn [1] http://www.understorm.net/cnc/lan/ts_ra2_lanpatch_1_00.zip [2] http://www.wikihow.com/images/c/c6/Image1_618.png [3] http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=252&iTestingId=34354