Is it Possible to Run Cross Platform & Version?

[Damian]

I've been studying multiboxing for the past week and have tried a few different applications all to varying degree of failure (Multibox, Synergy, Octopus). The furthest I got was with Synergy, which I could get to share my mouse & keyboard, but not broadcast keys. I only want something very basic and Synergy would work if I knew how to make it broadcast keystrokes to the host and client simultaneously.

Octopus seems very promising but my problem is one of the boxes is an XP Pro box and one is a Windows 2000 box. I can run up to Octopus version 1.07 on the 2000 box, but nothing newer since the .net architecture version 3.5 does support Windows 2000.

So my question is this, can I run the 1.07 client on the Windows 2000 box and run the latest version as the server? I can get it to register keystrokes that way (it indicates they are TCP Pings at this point, I can't figure out how to make it broadcast the keys themselves. I've been using Notepad for testing).

Are there common configuration files people use for setting up these applications? I've looked around for a configuration guide but am getting a bit lost in the cross version tangle and there's no helpfile outside of sites such as this.

(To those who would point out the "obvious", I see that KeyClone is the big dog around here, but I am looking for a solution not reliant upon a hosted authentication service and am unwilling to pay in advance before I know if I have enough brainpower to make it work.)

-Damian

[skarlot]

the keystrokes *may* work but I highly doubt the mouse works. i dont write it with any degree of backwards compatibility. you might get all sorts of problems ;(. Notepad doesnt work, try CMD.

[Damian]

I don't need the mouse to work, just the keyboard. If I have to I can run Synergy to get the mouse functionality since I've established that it works fine on my systems.

Okay, on to the keyboard broadcasting. Using CMD, on my Windows XP box I was able to broadcast keys typed in notepad to two CMD windows. The closest thing I've had to success! But now to take it up a notch... How do I get the keystrokes to broadcast to a CMD window on my Windows 2000 box?

I was getting it to at least acknowledge that keystrokes were being made (using notepad, which I didn't realize wasn't functional, DOH) but after I was able to get the local versions of CMD to receive broadcast keystrokes on my Windows XP box, the Windows 2000 box now just repeatedly fails to establish a connection or reports that it is unable to bind to the UDP port.

I just discovered your tutorial page and am trying to use that to figure out a way around the issue, but if you have any pointers I would welcome them.

[antishadow]

Check the wiki for the answer to your synergy problem.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Synergy

There is a custom compile of it available here which has keyboard broadcasting built in.

[skarlot]

actually its not gonna work I changed key messages from UDP to TCP after 1.07.

[Damian]

Check the wiki for the answer to your synergy problem.

http://www.dual-boxing.com/wiki/index.php/Synergy

There is a custom compile of it available here which has keyboard broadcasting built in.This version of Synergy you linked is the one I have. But I see no options to enable broadcasting unless its a switch or option I need to set when I open the application. I can't find a configuration guild or how-to anywhere. The only ones I've found lead to dead links on sites such as this one.