Synergy Mouse/Keyboard Sharing Application

Synergy - Mouse Keyboard sharing over Network (TCP)

• Its an amazing application, the best example of client - server architecture, makes your life easy by sharing single keyboard & mouse with multiple systems.
• If you are running your server over a unix machine you can install it from repository
• installation:
• sudo yum install synergy OR
• sudo apt-get install synergy
• Simple Configuration - Provide host information of your left & right machine as below

section: screens
        MyServerHostName:
        OtherComputerHostname:
end

section: links        
        MyServerHostName:
                right = OtherComputerHostname
        OtherComputerHostname:
                left  = MyServerHostName
end

• Running it behind default firewall of UNIX - iptables
• Here is the command to allow clients connecting server
• iptables -I INPUT 2 -p tcp --dport 24800 -j ACCEPT
• Adding aboe entry in permanent configuration fiile
• Add following line to your iptables configuration file, default: /etc/sysconfig/iptables
• -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 24800 -j ACCEPT

Note: Above Image has been taken from http://synergy-foss.org/

• References
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synergy_(software)
• http://synergy-foss.org/
• http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/10/18/sharing-a-keyboard-and-mouse-with-synergy/