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Synergy just stopped working for me, please help!


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I have a fully paid up Synergy license but it's just not working at all now. I have an old Mac Pro running Yosemite 10.10.5 and a slightly newer Macbook Pro running High Sierra 10.13.3. Both systems are sitting next to each plugged into the same switch and can share files etc.. just fine.

Obviously I am using the older version of Synergy on both as the site advises. When I try to run Synergy both systems just throw up a massive and frankly baffling and super fast log of errors that is too fast to even to read and obviously doesn't work. I want to use the older Mac Pro as the server.

I will be post some of the error logs below in the hope that someone smarter than me can make sense of this:

Mac Pro:

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:39] NOTE: new client disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:45] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:45] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:45] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

 

And from the Macbook Pro:

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:30] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:32] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:34] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:36] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:38] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:39] NOTE: new client disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:40] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:41] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:42] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:44] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:45] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:45] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:45] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:47] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:49] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:51] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:53] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] INFO: OpenSSL 1.0.2 22 Jan 2015

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] INFO: accepted secure socket

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] INFO: AES256-GCM-SHA384 TLSv1.2 Kx=RSA Au=RSA Enc=AESGCM(256) Mac=AEAD

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] NOTE: accepted client connection

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] NOTE: disconnecting client "James-MacBook-Pro.local"

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] NOTE: client "James-MacBook-Pro.local" has disconnected

[2018-03-16T23:03:55] WARNING: unrecognised client name "James-MacBook-Pro.local", check server config

 

This goes around in circles forever and sometimes causes Synergy just to crash and die. Could any tell me what I'm doing wrong here and suggest any help please? I'd be very grateful. Sorry for the long post! And thank you in advance!

Kind Regards,

James

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GranPaSmurf

Beyond me. Maybe one of the developers will make a comment.

BTW, if you need to post log files again, just a link, please.

 

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