I’m such a geek. I just got Synergy running at work. Now my Mac keyboard and mouse are controlling both the iMac & PC.
To generate the ctrl-alt-delete sequence needed to log-in to Windows, I need to modify the Group Policy to allow Synergy to generate the attention sequence.
- Open the Start menu, and type
gpedit.mscin the search line and press Enter. - Navigate to:
Local Computer Policy\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Logon Options - Set the Secure Attention Sequence to enabled for “Services and Ease of Access applications”
Now whenever I need to generate a ctrl-alt-delete sequence on the PC, fn-control-command-delete on my Mac does the job.
Update #1: I had to modify power settings on my Windows 7 system to get around a bug:
- For Windows 7 Synergy servers
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE process synergys.exe system display awaymode
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE service "Synergy Server" system display awaymode
- For Windows 7 Synergy clients
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE process synergyc.exe system display awaymode
powercfg -REQUESTSOVERRIDE service "Synergy Client" system display awaymode
Cool tool that I’d never heard of before you blogged about it. Perhaps I’ll check it out.
Cool tool that I’d never heard of before you blogged about it. Perhaps I’ll check it out.