wine and internet access

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 17 02:19:16 UTC 2010


  On 9/15/10 8:56 PM, Joachim Backes wrote:
> On 09/15/2010 06:14 PM, James Mckenzie wrote:
>> Joachim Backes<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>  wrote:
>> [Subject is not off topic and very relevent]
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Question: Do I have to install additional packages for getting an
>>> internet access by wine? An installed firefox for win for example had no
>>> chance to access any external links.
>>>
>> You should not need to install additional packages, if you can access the Internet from Linux/Unix.  Can you do this?
>>
>> Also, to further assist, can you provide what Linux Distribution and version and Wine version you are using.
>>
>>
I read both the Fedora and Wine mailing lists :)
>>
>>
>> I'm using wine-1.3.2-225-g5815b63 under Fedora 14 (all updates applied).
Can you access the Internet from within Fedora?  (I know this on the 
surface looks like a dumb question, but Wine depends on your Fedora 
system having access.)

Are you using SELinux in enforcing mode?

James McKenzie



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