I've been using Synergy for quite awhile without issue between a Windows 7 Synergy client and OS X 10.6.8 Synergy server. Suddenly, last night it stopped working. I was running 1.4.12 on both nodes. The connection from Windows 7 appears to be established but, according to the log, after 15 seconds or so it times out. On the Mac, the log doesn't show any connection from a client. Here's what I've tried so far:
- Updating to 1.4.14 on both client and server (unsuccessful)
- Disable firewalls on both client and server (unsuccessful)
- ping from Windows to Mac (successful)
- ssh from Windows to Mac (successful)
- Telnet from Windows 7 to Mac on port 24800 (connection appears to be established)
- Telnet from Mac to localhost on port 24800 (connection appears to be established)
- Telnet from Linux system to Mac on port 24800 (connection appears to be established)
- Change port from 24800 to 10000 (unsuccessful)
- Change Mac ip address to static instead of DHCP (unsuccessful)
- Disable encryption (unsuccessful)
- Reverse client/server roles. Windows 7 as server and Mac as client (unsuccessful)
- Completely uninstall Synergy on both computers, reboot, re-install (unsuccessful)
With debug logging enabled I observed the following:
- Windows 7 as server
- a connection was established
- "hello" message was sent from Windows 7 to OS X
- waiting for response and then timeout (apparently no response received)
- On OS X log, a connection is established but no further communications.
OS X as server
- client established a connection
- waited for "hello" message
- timeout
- On OS X log, no connection message appears.
It appears that Synergy on the Mac has just stopped communicating (even after deleting Synergy, rebooting and starting a new version). As far as I can tell nothing else changed on either system when the problem occurred. It just stopped working and hasn't worked since. Any help would be greatly appreciated.