[TriLUG] synergy between ubuntu and Vista

[William Sutton]

I think your clue is in the error log from the client that says "no route 
to host".  What do you get on the client if you ping the name that you 
have for the host in your config file?  my guess is that ping won't find 
it...

William Sutton


On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Douglas A. Whitfield wrote:

> Below is my failed attempt to get this working on two up-to-date Ubuntu
> systems:
>
> Here is my output from the client
> whitdoug at devlp-whitdoug:~$ synergyc -f 152.2.221.116
> INFO: synergyc.cpp,716: Synergy client 1.3.1 on Linux 2.6.22-14-generic #1
> SMP Fri Feb 1 04:59:50 UTC 2008 i686
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,840: XOpenDisplay(":0.0")
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreenSaver.cpp,339: xscreensaver window: 0x00000000
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,110: screen shape: 0,0 1400x1050
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,111: window is 0x02400004
> DEBUG: CScreen.cpp,38: opened display
> NOTE: synergyc.cpp,330: started client
> WARNING: synergyc.cpp,265: failed to connect to server: No route to host
> DEBUG: synergyc.cpp,237: retry in 1 seconds
> WARNING: synergyc.cpp,265: failed to connect to server: No route to host
> DEBUG: synergyc.cpp,237: retry in 3 seconds
> WARNING: synergyc.cpp,265: failed to connect to server: No route to host
> DEBUG: synergyc.cpp,237: retry in 5 seconds
>
> Here is my output from the server:
> whitdoug at whitdoug-desktop:~$ synergys -f --config synergy.conf
> INFO: synergys.cpp,1042: Synergy server 1.3.1 on Linux 2.6.22-14-generic #1
> SMP Fri Feb 1 04:59:50 UTC 2008 i686
> DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1051: opening configuration "synergy.conf"
> DEBUG: synergys.cpp,1062: configuration read successfully
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,840: XOpenDisplay(":0.0")
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreenSaver.cpp,339: xscreensaver window: 0x00000000
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,110: screen shape: 0,0 1280x1024
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,111: window is 0x03400004
> DEBUG: CScreen.cpp,38: opened display
> DEBUG: CXWindowsScreen.cpp,672: registered hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14
> mask=0000) as id=1
> NOTE: synergys.cpp,500: started server
> INFO: CServer.cpp,1140: screen "whitdoug-desktop" shape changed
>
> Here is my config file:
> section: screens
>        whitdoug-desktop:
>        devlp-whitdoug:
> end
> section: links
>        whitdoug-desktop:
>               left = devlp-whitdoug
>        devlp-whitdoug:
>               right = whitdoug-desktop
>
> end
>
> Here are the instructions I believe I am following:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynergyHowto .  I did double check my IP
> address on the server.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Feb 2, 2008 11:19 AM, Anderson Silva <afsilva at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> PS.. match the synergyc configuration file I mean :-)
>
>
>
>
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