Hello,

I am posting here because of two problems while using IPX DosBox Emulation with mac OS X.

First, I've read carefully the following post:
Re: Help installing DOSbox 0.70 on Mac OS X

With the great help of this thread, i was able to launch DosBox with my personal config file on a Mac OS X system. I've been able to connect with a friend running DosBox on a computer with Vista installed, after him creating server emulation.

Here are the two problems:

1/ I can't myself be the server. I've got the message:

Z:\> ipxnet startserver
IPX Tunneling utility for DosBox
IPX Tunneling Server failed to start

I've found one way to bypass the problem by switching to superuser in the command shell before launching DosBox with the conf file. Is there a way to create server without having to be in SU? Would be very bad to HAVE DosBox runned in SU all times...

2/ When i launch WarcraftII (didn't try with other games cause don't know which other one use IPX Protocol), which is very slow on my mac by the way, two possibilities:
- If my friend create the game, i simply can't see the game, so no way to connect to him.
- If I create the game, he see it but can't joint it: Saying "Waiting for Eesponse".

It's looks to me that was some firewall problem of Mac OS X so i've tried to simply disable the ipfw with:

ipfw disable firewall

But this didn't change anything... The Vista firewall of my friend is also disabled. I can ping him when connected with ipxnet connect command with ipxnet ping command sucessfully. Got an idea?

More information is that i've tried the same thing with another laptop on windows XP with both firewall enabled and this was working well.

My config is:
DosBox: v0.72
Mac OS X 10.4.11
PowerBook PC G4 1,5 Ghz
512 Mo DDR SDRAM

I'm connecting through wifi AIRPORT card on MAC and Intel PRO Wireless on PC. Didn't tried with RJ-45 cause don't have one here.

Thanks you to take time to answer me if you've got any idea of help resolving my problem.

Greetings,

TituX