QuickSynergy

[Rick Stevens]

On 06/03/2014 05:43 AM, Liam Proven issued this missive:
> On 3 June 2014 00:02, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
>> If you don't specify the server's IP address to the client, then the
>> client will probably be trying to connect over the OTHER network, and
>> no, that won't work.
>
>
> Success!
>
> It was the firewall in the end; Synergy's error message is misleading.
> It says "no route to host", but there is a route, it's just that
> nobody's able to listen.
>
> Procedure, in case it helps anyone:
>
> [1] I moved the 2nd machine onto a different network port, getting it
> on the same subnet. No difference.
>
> [2] I investigated why I had this 2nd network interface, virbr0:
>
> http://nixcraft.com/showthread.php/15760-Remove-Virtual-Interface
>
> So I got rid of it:
>
> http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-kvm-disable-virbr0-nat-interface/
>
> No difference. Rebooted, still no difference.
>
> [3] I checked out that there _was_ a route. There was. No hops, 2
> machines on same 10.x.y.z subnet. I even added a hostname to
> /etc/hosts. No difference.
>
> [4] So then I thought the "no route to host" message must be spurious,
> and finally Googled it.
>
> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/42001/synergy-no-route-to-host-but-i-can-ping-from-terminal/
>
> And this post is correct. Although there are no firewall rules visible
> in the GUI, they _are_ there and the port _was_ being blocked.
>
> Open the port and it worked instantly.

I explained that a long time ago. The default firewall blocks
everything except what you put in the config and I had told you what
needed to be opened.

The virbr0 thing shouldn't have had an effect anyway. It's used for
bonjour and its ilk.

Regardless, glad you got it to work anyway.
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