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I am actually on Arch Linux right now, but the Gentoo forums are hands down the best (i feel) linux support site around. Anyways, I installed and configured wine, but I am unsure if it has the ability to connect to the internet. Can it do this by default? or do I need to set this up? The reason I ask is because I have my router configured to broadcast its log to my computer (its a linksys, you can pick which ip to broadcast the log to), and the linksys website doesnt have any programs in linux that can retrieve these logs. However, there is a windows client that I can successfully run in wine, but I am unable to tell if it has connection to my network (because I dont recieve any logs). What do you guys think? Are there any alternatives to receiving these logs? (UDP port 512) perhaps w/ some kind of script that catches packets on port 512 to my computer? (and maby a short explanation how). Anyways, thank you for your help.
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| Networking with wine should work out of the box, regardless of your network card. But you're trying to open a port lower than 1024 and you need root privileges to do this. If you can get your software to use a port higher than 1024 you should be fine. If you can get only the server software (the part you want to install with wine) to use a higher port, but your router insists on 512, you can configure xinetd to automatically forward everything from 512 to your port. Do NOT run wine as root user. |
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how do I use the xinetd program, if you dont mind me askign?
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what if I cant configure the port on the router, or the log-viewer program? can I give a regular user the ability to use it?
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| swooshOnLn wrote: | | what if I cant configure the port on the router, or the log-viewer program? can I give a regular user the ability to use it? |
Dunno. Perhaps you can get wine to map all the ports that windows software uses to a higher port range? Since your problem may be a regular issue for wine users, maybe you should ask at the wine-users list. |
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