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Sharing Keyboard & Mouse between machines
Use one keyboard and mouse across several networked machines. Focus changes as the mouse scrolls from one screen to another.What you need
A copy of Synergy on each machine you want to use your mouse and keyboard on. Download it from here.What to do
Decide which mouse and keyboard you want to use, and on what machine you will use them on. Probably the closest one to where you're sitting. Install Synergy on that machine first.Click Andvanced and chose a screen name. Click ok.
Click the Share this computer's keyboard and mouse (server) radio button and then click Configure. You need add the name of each machine you are linking in this bit. You set the machine name when you install Synergy on that machine (later). Click the + button and type in the screen name and click ok. Do this for each machine that will be linked, including the server.
Click on one of the screen names. The Links: section defines where your mouse will go when it leaves that side of the screen. You can have it loop back on itself, and it doesn't have to be related - you could go off to the left on one machine to get to another and have it going to a different machine if you go back to the left.
Install Synergy on the other machines. Make sure the screen names match what you said they would be otherwise it wont work. Make sure the Use another computer's shared keyboard and mouse (client) is radio button is selected and type in the name of the server.
Click Start on the server and on each machine.
Troubleshooting
The only problem I had with this was the firewall on my laptop. You can find out which port it's running on in Advanced and open that port or you can tell windows firewall to allow Synergy and it'll work things out for itself.
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Created: 4 December 2005