[TriLUG] synergy between ubuntu and Vista

[Douglas A. Whitfield]

sweet, I got it working between ubuntus.  now, to see if I can do the same
with Vista.  This is great for home use though. :)

On Feb 5, 2008 12:36 PM, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > no; this isn't necessarily about ping working.  this is about the
> > ability
> > of the client to resolve the ip address of the server.  if you are using
> > a
> > name based configuration, then synergyc tries to get the ip address of
> > the
> > server using its name (because synergyc connects to the ip address).  if
> > it can't get the ip address of the server, then it spits out errors and
> > dies (which is what you're seeing).
> >
> > using ping was to see if your client machine could resolve the ip
> > address
> > of the server and talk to it.  you can also do nslookup <server name>
> > and
> > see if you get anything (or dig, etc., etc.), but I expect the answer
> > will
> > be the same:  that your client machine has no way of resolving the ip
> > address from the server name.
> >
> > the solutions are as follow (in order of laziness/easiness):
> > 1. use the ip address of the server in the client configuration (I
> > believe
> > this was mentioned)
> > 2. put an entry in your hosts file for the server (name & ip address)
> > 3. get your server into your internal DNS
> >
> > I'd personally recommend 3 if practical, 2 if not, and 1 as a last
> > resort.
> >
> > William Sutton
> >
>


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