Synergy - Keyboard not working on Windows with OSX Server

Question

I'm using a standard Apple Keyboard and an HP mouse. Both are USB. I start the server on the Mac, and then the client. The mouse works correctly on the windows machine, but when I try to type, nothing appears.

Here's my config:

section: screens
    us147137.local:
    windows:  
end
section: links
    us147137.local:
        left = windows
    windows:
        right = us147137.local
end

I gave the windows box a screen name of windows for some reason, but that shouldn't cause the problem anyway, right?

You think it's just because of the Apple keyboard?

Thanks!

EDIT: Downgrade to the version below latest and it works!

Solution 1

I had this exact same problem, only with a Linux client and my OSX server. I rolled back to the synergy version 1.3.6 and had to run the server as root. However, I never got copy and paste to work this way.

You should also contribute to this bug report: http://synergy-foss.org/pm/issues/57

Solution 2

I think this is issue 47

Solution 3

I had the same problem of Mac as server and Linux as client. Mouse worked and keyboard did not. After I "sudo synergys" to start the server as root, keyboard starts to work.

Comments

[Admin]

What version of Synergy are you using? I used a self-compiled version of the Mac server for 2 years with one to two Windows clients without issue. Used an Apple Alu keyboard the entire time. So its not the Apple keyboard.

[Admin]

Latest version for both client/server.

[Stiefel]

One of the solutions noted there is to use SynergyKM on MacOS - this worked fine for me!