Comments on: OS X / Ubuntu Synergy Setup

By: Artur Ergashev

Artur Ergashev — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:31:15 +0000

Excellent, this worked for me with only a tiny bit of tinkering. My linux box wouldn’t connect with the .local appended to my hostname, so try it with and without.

By: Saleem

Saleem — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:26:47 +0000

I tried using the ip address and still nothing. The ip address on the mac is a global one though, starts with 99.xxx, and the ubuntu computer is a local ip starting with 192.xxx, which I thought might be odd that they don’t start with the same 3 numbers. Yes, I was using SL when it worked and I was using machine names also. Weird. Probably something really small and stupid that I’m doing wrong. I started thinking if it has something to do with the router that might be preventing communication. what do you think?

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:45:58 +0000

Have you tried using the IP addresses instead? If so, it could be a snow leapord problem. When it worked, were you using SL?

By: Saleem

Saleem — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:19:11 +0000

Hi. I’m trying to use a mac (snow leopard) and ubuntu with Synergy. I have synergyKM on the mac and QuickSynergy on the ubuntu machine. It did work at one time shortly, but I just get “waiting for connections” on my mac (host server) now. I’m using the names of the machines as the identifiers. They know each other because when I ping/ssh from one another, they recognize each other..Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong? Please help

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:56:41 +0000

Are you using the hostnames for the connection, or the IP? Make sure you use the correct command line scripts to get the hostname / IP info you need.

By: Hayes Potter

Hayes Potter — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:11:46 +0000

This did not work for me, I am very frustrated been trying to get this setup for the last 2 hours. I finally find a very good page with instructions that happens to share my exact configurations, and it will not work. My Mac’s SynergyKM preference pane status just says “Waiting for connections”. Please help.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:31:04 +0000

No problem man, glad it helped!

By: Gopal

Gopal — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:29:12 +0000

Thank you. This worked for me!