Synergy IS simply wonderful. I have used it for over a year and after replacing one machine received the error. The IP address worked instantly. Thank you for posting!

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I have been using synergy for several months now and I must say it is awesome. I use it along with a kvm because I use dual display for one of the machines. However just today I could not get them to reconnect so I did as described above and instantly I am up and running again.

Thanks!
Brandon

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I had exactly the same problem, after a period of unreliability from Synergy. It seemed to have acquired a mind of its own. Had it running with one PC with two monitors and a second with one monitor and it originally worked seamlessly over the three screens with no problem but the program started working intermittently and then suddenly decided to give up completely, only displaying the green circle icon without the “lightning” connected symbol in the middle, together with the “Synergy 1.3.1 - WARNING: failed to connect to server: Timed Out” error on the client PC. I tried re-installing but no joy. The cure given by “john” worked instantly, although I did have an instance of a jerky cursor on the client screen only afterwards, (something I`ve seen before), which seemed to be cured by a reboot. Anyone know what`s going on here and does the author know? I did post on the Source Forge Synergy help forum, but had no responses. I will probably post the answer there for anyone in the same boat.

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Ah, yes, but surely that begs the question as to why it worked quite happily in the previous configuration (i.e.name and not IP address) for the best part of a year before deciding not to work. Why does the server PC also not need that modification? My set-up is now working quite happily with a mix-and-match. If it ain`t broke, don`t fix it - I shall leave well enough alone Regards to all.

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Hope there is someone at the other end of this to solve my problem. Think I have hooked up the computers properly but it does not work. The server says
FATAL: failed to startserver: cannot bind address: WSAEINVAL. The client says WARNING: failed to connect to server: address not found for: Michael. Anyone able to diagnose and solve this issue? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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if you have tried the above and are still havening problems make sure to disable windows firewall or route thru tcp and udp port 24800 (that worked for me)

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