Synergy setup

[gregbzh]

Bonjour. I'm trying out Fedora 12 and am so far impressed by the speed (long time Ubuntu user but by no means an expert). I can't get synergy setup between the fedora box and two windows machines to the left and right. Am I missing something (with the difference between Ubuntu & Fedore perhaps)?

Cheers.

Edit: Anybody? Ubuntu beckons.

Edit: Anybody? Ubuntu beckons.

[Vespa]

An easy way to use synergy is to install the quicksynergy package. It adds a graphical front end to synergy. I only use two PCs in my setup a Fedora 12 and a Windows 7, but it should be pretty asy to add a 3rd one:

section: screens
        windows1:
        windows2:
        fedora:
end
section: links
        windows1:
                right = fedora
        fedora:
                left = windows1    
                right = windows2
        windows2:
                left = fedora
end

If this does not work, post your synergy config file. Cheers!

[gregbzh]

Cheers. Tried that.
[greg@rua ~]$ synergys -f
INFO: synergys.cpp,1042: Synergy server 1.3.1 on Linux 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:41:45 EST 2009 i686
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1051: opening configuration "/home/greg/.synergy.conf"
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1062: configuration read successfully
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,857: XOpenDisplay(":0.0")
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreenSaver.cpp,339: xscreensaver window: 0x00000000
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,114: screen shape: 0,0 1440x900
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,115: window is 0x04200004
DEBUG: CScreen.cpp,38: opened display
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,689: registered hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14 mask=0000) as id=1
NOTE: synergys.cpp,500: started server
INFO: CServer.cpp,1141: screen "rua" shape changed


Any help would be much appreciated. I'm learning as I go along here.

[Vespa]

One issue I had before was in name resolution. Make sure that the hostname responds to a ping. If it does not you may want to add it to your /etc/hosts file. My output is nearly the same as yours, so your configuration may be fine.

DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1051: opening configuration "./.quicksynergy/synergy.conf"
DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1062: configuration read successfully
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,857: XOpenDisplay(":0.0")
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreenSaver.cpp,339: xscreensaver window: 0x00000000
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,114: screen shape: 0,0 3360x1050 (xinerama)
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,115: window is 0x03800004
DEBUG: CScreen.cpp,38: opened display
DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,689: registered hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14 mask=0000) as id=1
NOTE: synergys.cpp,500: started server
INFO: CServer.cpp,1141: screen "fedorapc" shape changed
NOTE: CClientListener.cpp,127: accepted client connection
DEBUG: CClientProxy1_0.cpp,404: received client "windows7" info shape=0,0 1680x1050
NOTE: CServer.cpp,278: client "windows7" has connected

Since the client connection is what is missing, try adding the names you are using to the hosts file. In my /etc/hosts file, I have an entry for each PC just to make sure they can communicate, for example:

192.168.100.19 fedorapc
192.168.100.18 windows7

Additionally the firewall may cause an issue. You will want to allow inbound port 24800 if you haven't already. Good luck!