Hey, Sorry for all the information, I just been troubleshooting this since yesterday. I just really like the idea of this program and really want it to work.
My setup:
I'm have a new OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3) on a Mac Mini, and my own built Windows 8 machine.
I'm a student so I'm not on my own network I'm on a wireless network from my school in the dorm.
Sometimes it changes the IP address on me for my Windows 8 machine,
I know this from other programs that I have used.
So I started with the Windows 8 as the server. I set up synergy, then Configured the Server. Then I set up synergy on my mac, so far so good. Set up as client, this is where is started acting weird.
The "screen name" was coming up not as the name of the computer but as the name of my network connection. At first I ignored it just put in the IP address of my Win8 machine (the one bolded IP address out of the 6) and hit start but I got the error "WARNING: failed to connect to server: Timed out"
So then I went into preference of Synergy and then changed the name manually to the name of my computer under sharing in the System Preference. Same Error
So then I thought it might be the IP address that I put in, so I put in the other IP addresses given to me (there were 6 on the Win8). Different Errors. First one "WARNING: failed to connect to server: cannot connect socket: Host is down." But I figured that's normal if its the wrong IP address. Then I got: "ERROR: server refused client with name "Megans-Mac-mini.local WARNING: failed to connect to server: server refused client with our name"
So then I decided to give up and changed the Win8 to the client and the Mini into the Server, (also set up Configure Server on Mini). Then I got this error: "FATAL: Init failed: system setting not enabled: "Enable access for assistive devices" Try `synergys --help' for more information."
So I went in to Accessibility and check off "Enable access for assistive devices."The entire Synergy GUI disappeared after I hit start. I went up to the synergy icon and tried to hit hid and show to get it back so I could read the log. Nope nothing. So I unchecked it and quit synergy and restarted the GUI came back.
So I though might be a small glitch and I didn't actually need the GUI if it was actually working so I did it again and connected the Win8 as the client and that log says "Connecting to service..., connection established, starting client, configure file C:/Users/MYNAME/AppData/Local/Temp/qt_temp.Hp1388,log level:NOTE" but trying to move my mouse over to the other computer nothing happened. Figure that's because it doesn't say "connecting to 'MAC'S.IP.ADDRESS': MAC'S.IP.ADDRESS:24800" after it says starting client like it did when the mac was the client.
I have no idea what to do from here.