[TriLUG] synergy between ubuntu and Vista

[William Sutton]

good news... should be able to do it with Vista.

William Sutton


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

> 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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