{"id":942,"date":"2010-03-13T21:39:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=942"},"modified":"2010-03-13T22:21:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T03:21:47","slug":"synergy-server-on-windows-7-and-client-on-macbook-pro-with-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2010\/synergy-server-on-windows-7-and-client-on-macbook-pro-with-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"Synergy server on Windows 7 and client on Macbook Pro with OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dual-booted into Windoze for some gaming, and it just wasn&#8217;t right without synergy letting me slide over to the Macbook to get some work done while waiting for those wonderful Windows progress bars.\u00a0 It took a little futzing to get synergy working right.  Basic steps I took before it worked for me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set a good hostname on the MBP using [sudo scutil &#8211;set HostName  myhostname], and reboot to keep you honest<\/li>\n<li>Set up a good hostname for your W7 box<\/li>\n<li>In fact, make sure you have your network configured properly, including static IP&#8217;s and good hostnames for all your machines\n<ul>\n<li>On your router, use MAC addresses with DHCP to assign static IP&#8217;s automatically, to really do this right<\/li>\n<li>Make sure each box has IP\/hostnames set up in hosts files ([\/etc\/hosts] on OSX, [%SystemRoot%\\System32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts] on W7)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you can ping between the W7 box and MBP box using your nice clean hostnames<\/li>\n<li>Install synergy on W7, and set up the shortcut to run it as administrator, in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode<\/li>\n<li>Configure the synergy server on W7 with the MBP and W7 hostnames<\/li>\n<li>Do NOT autostart synergy when computer starts &#8211; Windows 7 apparently doesn&#8217;t allow desktop interaction from services? &#8211; set it up to run on login<\/li>\n<li> Start the server manually on W7<\/li>\n<li>On the MBP, download synergy into the appropriate location (somewhere under \/Applications, in my case)<\/li>\n<li>Start up the synergy client on the MBP as follows (\/me &lt;3 screen!) : [screen -S synergy_client -d -m .\/synergyc -n mbp_name -f w7_name]<\/li>\n<li>Once it works, you can convert the synergy client script to [start_synergy.command] so you can double-click it in Finder<\/li>\n<li>Then, you can put [do shell script &#8220;~\/scripts\/start_synergy.command&#8221;] into the AppleScript editor, save it as an &#8220;Application&#8221;, and drag the app to the dock for quick clicking.\u00a0 Whoop!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s not perfect yet, sometimes I have to use [screen -r] to see what&#8217;s going on, and occasionally clean up multiple versions if I click the dock icon twice or whatever.\u00a0 But synergy is soooo comfy and nice!\u00a0 :&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been dual-booted into Windoze for some gaming, and it just wasn&#8217;t right without synergy letting me slide over to the Macbook to get some work done while waiting for those wonderful Windows progress bars.\u00a0 It took a little futzing to get synergy working right. 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