Dual-boxing newb, 1 Mac 1 PC

[elorc]

I don't know if this is possible or not, but I want to do a dual-boxing setup and ideally would like it to be across two machines. I have my WinXP desktop and a brand new MacBook Pro that I'd like to use. I'm not sure what software will work best for this. Multibox seems to be PC only so I'm not sure if there's another solution that works on OS X (I don't plan on sullying my MBP by installing Windows on it :P) and XP. Any recommendations or guides that address this particular setup?

Failing this, I guess I'll run two WoW clients on the same machine but I figured the two-machine setup is probably best.

Thanks

[user]

just do it man!

google clonekeys, download on you macbook and leave it in your download files.

run how ever many you want on the mac book and then run a main on windows xp.

[tzibo]

I do pretty much exactly this.

I have my MBP as my main, with my main char and a herbing alt on it
I have a G5 iMac with 2 chars on
I have an old AMD64 pc running with one char on it.

I use clonekeys on the macs, and synergy to broadcast to all of them.

Works very well for me, and didn't require any hw outlay, which is prolly what allowed me to make it happen

[elorc]

I downloaded QuickSynergy on my MBP and Synergy on my PC. The first thing I did after extracting the files on my PC was run synergy.exe.

1. I selected "Share this computer's keyboard and mouse (server)"
2. Clicked on "Configure", then "+" under Screens.
3. Typed in the name of my machine for "Screen Name" and clicked OK.
4. Clicked OK again to go back to the main screen.
5. Under "Advanced" I left the screen name field and port (24800) alone.
6. Then I clicked "Start" and it tells me that Synergy was successfully started.

So then I went over to my MBP and fired up QuickSynergy.

1. Clicked on the "Client" tab.
2. Entered the IP address of the server machine (192.168.1.58) under the server hostname field.
3. Clicked "Start"

After a minute or so, QuickSynergy crashes on the MBP. The message says: "The application synergyc quit unexpectedly." So I closed QuickSynergy completely and reopened it. This time, I entered the name of my machine ("quintusxp") in the hostname field instead of the IP. I clicked Start again. Again, it crashes with the same error. On the PC, the icon in the system tray shows Synergy as "Waiting for clients" and only shows quintusxp on the list.

I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. Synergy on the PC is version 1.3.1, and QuickSynergy on the MBP is 0.8. I'm running OS X Leopard 10.5.2. Any ideas?



Edit -- It might be worth noting that when I quit out of the Synergy server on the PC, Synergy crashes as well.

[tzibo]

I've never tried QuickSynergy before - I just use the command line version from sourceforge.

From the sound of your setup you're running the PC as the server and the MBP as the client? That's the reverse of mine (I have my MBP as my main machine), so I've not tried it that way round either. However it should work no problem.

My suspicion would be that the PC is firewalling the Synergy server - so the MBP tries to connect and then just dies after a while through being rejected.

[elorc]

I tried it the other way around too and had the same problem. When XP's firewall came up asking about Synergy I told it to unblock it, but I didn't think to try disabling the thing outright. I'll give that a shot and let you know how it works out.

[Binaryzero]

I find that "Open Synergy" works well on the Mac, I had not issues getting it running as a clone to my PC (I do not MB on it as EQ2 does not run on native on the mac, and it is just a Mini, so no XP runs great, but the video is not that great.)

[elorc]

Okay I got further along but it's still not working. I am getting the two to connect now. The problem was that I didn't add a screen for the Mac on the PC's Synergy configuration. Now under Screens on the Screens & Links window, I have "quintusxp" (PC) and "mac" (Mac, obviously lol).

Should I have anything under the Links part? I don't understand what this is supposed to be.

Anyhow, I start the server and then I start the client. Both show as connected, but when I move the mouse around or press keys on the PC, nothing happens on the Mac. I'm not sure what's wrong here. I start the client with:

./synergyc -f -n mac 192.168.1.58:24800

It says:

INFO: Synergy client 1.3.1 on Darwin 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
NOTE: started client
NOTE: connected to server


The server says:
INFO: Synergy server 1.3.1 on Microsoft WIndows Server XP
DEBUG: opening configuration "F:\Documents and Settings\frank\My Documents\synergy.sgc"
DEBUG: configuration read successfully
DEBUG: screen shape: 0,0 1680x1050
DEBUG: window is 0x000c028c
DEBUG: opened display
DEBUG: active sides: 0
DEBUG: active sides: 0
DEBUG: desk Default window is 0x000c0288
DEBUG: switched to desk "Default"
DEBUG: desktop is now accessible
DEBUG: registered hotkey ScrollLock (id=ef14 mask=0000) as id=1
NOTE: started server
INFO: screen "quintusxp" shape changed
NOTE: accepted client connection
DEBUG: received client "mac" info shape=0,0 1440x900
DEBUG: active sides: 0
NOTE: client "mac" has connected


I move my mouse around the screen or type something in notepad, nothing happens on the Mac. Any ideas?

[Gadzooks]

I do pretty much exactly this.

I have my MBP as my main, with my main char and a herbing alt on it
I have a G5 iMac with 2 chars on
I have an old AMD64 pc running with one char on it.

I use clonekeys on the macs, and synergy to broadcast to all of them.

Works very well for me, and didn't require any hw outlay, which is prolly what allowed me to make it happen

Could you do me a favor and explain how you broadcast CloneKeys over Synergy? I got synergy installed and running across my G5 and Mini, but I could not see any way to broadcast?

[tzibo]

Broadcast - yeah, that's always the tricky bit, esp when I don't mention it :whistling: .

Windows version (I've never used it, but I expect it works) - it's on the Wiki, see 'Synergy with broadcast'

Mac/*nix version - I've added the like to the wiki just now too to the version I used - see Synergy with broadcast OSX - command line

The key for the mac version to toggle broadcasting is: `
I'm guessing it's the same one on the PC.