OrangeSwarm

The god of simplicity. Its hard to beat this. No messing around with ports routers whatever the hell may come up. This is a couple of clicks and done! Hamachi makes a VPN between a group of PCs. Basically you can play LAN games with your friends online without having to hassle with all kinds of sophisticated stuff (including grammer).

The great thing is that this software works at about any OS! So you can now do a Lan game over the internet with ALL your friends.

• Windows Download: link
• Mac (OS X 10.4+) Download: link
• Linux Download: link

Download and install it. Create a new network and make your friends join the same network. Host a game and let your friends connect to your Hamachi IP adress. And its as simple as that. I have hamachi running on my home game server. My friends just join the same network and we can play. No screwing around with portforwarding or other shit.

To find hamachi servers hosten by others go here:
http://www.planethamachi.com

How it works
If you would like to know HOW this works, please visit the Hamachi wiki, which is located here (link)

Hamachi on Linux
Alright so the linux version might not work for you, which means you will have to use wine and the windows version of Hamachi. I will explain how to make it work.

Using Ubuntu Hamachi and Wine will create a nightmare. Wine only handles one network interface (as far as i figured out) meaning it will use the Eth0 connection instead of the Ham0 connection. It wont use hamachi.. or will it? it does sometimes…

Open console and do the following:

Before continueing download the latest version of hamachi from to your homefolder

(you dont have to type the echo lines, but that way you can just paste everything

echo Enable Tunneling support

sudo modprobe tun

echo Add tun to your modules list
sudo gedit /etc/modules

echo Unpack and Install hamachi
cd ~
tar -zxvf hamachi-*.tar.gz
cd hamachi-0.*

echo installing
sudo make install
sudo tuncfg

echo Creating Base config
hamachi-init

echo Get the GUI
sudo apt-get install hamachi-gui

echo Start Hamachi-gui
hamachi-gui

I hope that works for everyone, if not please post here and let us help you! Ok moving on we need to do a bunch of stuff so there is a higher chance you can play games using Wine and Hamachi on ubuntu.

Edit your /etc/hosts file and add your Hamachi-IP and your computer name

For example: 5.5.14.14 Laptop2

sudo gedit /etc/hosts

If you did the above the following command should display your hamachi IP:

hostname -i

If it does you should be set to play games! If that still does not work i suggest deleting your wine folder and re-configuring wine with the following command:

winecfg

If at any point you can see other people, but they can see you try the following command(s)

hamachi go-online
sudo hamachi go-online

And that should do the trick!