Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Synergy KVM - Share 1 set up mouse and keyboards across more machines

Came across this a while back but just waster 2 hours trying to set it up again since its been years.  I think the only shortfall to this, is its not secure.  But I use this in closed NAT networks at home so I feel somewhat safe about using it.

WinXP

I downloaded the exe for Windows here http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergy2/files/ this is really straight forward so I won't write much about this.

Mac OSX

I wasted one hour trying to figure out the command line in OSX to setup Synergy and just could not get it to work, I then downloaded the file called "SynergyKM-1.0b7-Installer.dmg" at the time of this post from this link here http://sourceforge.net/projects/synergykm/files/
See notes here to setup the Mac client you downloaded above http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/set-up-synergy-on-mac/

Ubuntu

I went under System->Administrations->Synaptic Package Manager and searched for Synergy and installed the 2 packages.  This was all I needed to do.

This is all I have time to write notes on today, this is by no means a "How To" but just a reminder for myself to download the KM version for Mac in the future.