I've had problems with servers running as non-root. Last year I was
running a Linux CounterStrike server from my friend's Mandrake 8.1 box.
The server could not bind to its port unless it was run as someone in the
root/sys groups. I just assumed that only root-level users could create
sockets on anything other than localhost. I'll have to look into that. I
had thought about running Serv-U in wine, but the above problem got in the
way.

Tessai