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I'm trying to do LAN gaming with Crossover for Linux, but my computer doesn't ever get found by other players in my network, neither does it find other players itself.

(I tried with 2 games, Battle for Middle Earth 2 and Anno 1602.)

Is there a general method for achieving LAN access for Wine?

Steven Roose
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You might be able to try Hamachi (unmanaged), since it creates a virtual LAN network. As far as Wine is concerned, I've only used Hamachi with Wine to play Diablo II TCP/IP, not LAN. However, I assume this would work, since I've gotten Minecraft LAN to work with computers out of my network using Hamachi.

So you'll want everyone you want to play LAN with to install Hamachi, and you all join a single network; Then, when you open a LAN game, if you connect using an IP, you'll want to use your Hamachi IP, which I believe usually is something like 5.x.x.x

ananaso
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Your best best is to ask on the wine forums at winehq (it's the same people) or on the forums at crossover.

First, you need to make sure that you have real access to the LAN. Check your firewall, and make sure your not blocking any ports. Make sure that the port your trying gets used.

You can also experience problems with older games that try to access NICs directly or some such. However for most part wine just uses the network you have. It doesn't care if the packets are routed to the internet or 5 feet away. This could be very game specific.

Older DirectPlay games also have some problems. If you look at Anno 1602 for example you will find that dplay (networking) is a problem. see the bug report. There is a workaround. Download the dll files you need for dplay better instructions here and set them to use them by doing something like

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dplayx,dpnet,dpnhpast,dpwsockx=n" wine 1602.exe

Keep in mind this is just one way to achieve this.

coteyr
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