Comments on: How to Share a Single Keyboard & Mouse Between Multiple Macs & Computers

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 20:38:56 +0000

Thanks, Nick! Fortunately, I read through all the comments and got to yours before I tried following the instructions in the original post. Doing as you said, I used the base Synergy installs on both my Mac and my PC, and did not use SynergyKM. It worked perfectly following the User Guide on your website.

Server: Mac OS X Lion v10.7.5
Client: Win 7 Pro SP1 32-bit

Great software!

By: How to Use Teleport to Share a Keyboard, Mouse, & Clipboard Between Different Macs

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:08:54 +0000

[...] covered a similar sharing keyboards and mice with Synergy before, but not all users could get it working on their Macs, whereas Teleport definitely works in OS X [...]

By: Share your Mouse & Keyboard across Multiple Mac’s with Teleport

Share your Mouse & Keyboard across Multiple Mac’s with Teleport — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:35:04 +0000

[...] alternative called Synergy lets you share a mouse and keyboard between Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux

By: william

william — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:11:56 +0000

Thanks alot. Works perfect.

By: Nick Bolton

Nick Bolton — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 09:06:02 +0000

Hello,

For all those who are saying “Doesn’t work on Lion” please think about what you’re saying. Synergy *does* work on Lion, and Mountain Lion too (as many users have said).

It might be that you aren’t using the software correctly, I know it should work out the box, but there can be complications (firewalls, networking issues, having assistive devices disabled, etc) so please get help from our website before saying it doesn’t work specifically on Lion.

http://synergy-foss.org/help/

And you should try using the stock GUI provided with Synergy, we worked very hard on it. SynergyKM and QuickSynergy are great pices of software and have helped a great number of people, but were designed to provide the missing GUI for 1.3 (which is now an ancient version).

The GUI that comes with 1.4 is the same on all platforms (Mac, Windows, and Linux) and is designed specifically to work with 1.4, so by using this you will get the best user experience.

Thanks for using Synergy!

Thanks,
Nick

By: Mac Setups: Programmers Desk

Mac Setups: Programmers Desk — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:04:38 +0000

[...] The single Apple keyboard and wireless Logitech M510 mouse are shared between both computers with the help of Synergy. [...]

By: Tomo

Tomo — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:47:35 +0000

same for me

By: Tomo

Tomo — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:46:53 +0000

I had to use the latest beta to get it to work, and often times indeed the scroll gets messed up — what I end up doing is turning the server off and then on again if i need scroll in a client, or just off temporarily if I need it in the server

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:21:50 +0000

Forgot to say that I could not get SynergyKM to work. I ended up using straight Synergy 1.4.8 on both machines.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:15:49 +0000

Got mine working as well. Was getting the “Timed Out” error but it had to do with windows firewall.

Server: Windows 7 Ultimate
Client: MacBook Pro OSX 10.7.3

By: noreiga

noreiga — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:55:36 +0000

I got it working on first try. I am specifying each network name both identifier and connection. No problems at all here.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:48:34 +0000

Will please post you’re instructions for getting this process to work. It seems out of all the people you are the only one that has this working with no bugs.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:35:14 +0000

Yes you can get it working by killing the process and then hitting start again like I said its a GUI bug but who has time for that bull.

And you have to do this every time you reboot. But like I said as long as you have 1 snow leopard machine it works fine.

By: Harry T.

Harry T. — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:13:28 +0000

If you are using Lion, use http://www.share-mouse.com

ShareMouse has better Mac support, works in either direction without “server” and “client” and is up and running in a minute.

Cool extra feature: You can also drag around files from one computer to another.

By: BT Barner

BT Barner — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 19:31:11 +0000

Try IP addresses for the connections, and don’t use spaces in the machine names. If all else fails, try using Windows 7 as server and the MacBook Pro as the client.