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Old 06-24-2008, 02:15 PM
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Can you play Lan games if the other computers have Windows?
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Old 06-24-2008, 06:00 PM
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I think it's possible. However, I can't recommend any particular program for this purpose.
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i think you can ... but it usually depends on the program ...
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Yeah, depends on the game. The quake games you could and I'd imagine any game made for both Linux and Windows would allow you to...
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Anyone tried via a VPN tunnel between Linux and Windows?
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I've played Quake on a server with other Windows Users. A VPN tunnel would work perfect as long as it was fast.
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Yup, you can play fine over a VPN connection. That is actually not a bad idea for private network gaming.
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