Connection challenges - MULTIPLICITYD

Oh, and I do have the non-routable ip addresses box unchecked, as is the local subnet checkbox.

What is your local machine IP address?

You are probably getting that response because the IP MP sees when you do that will be 127.0.0.1 and MP rejects that as invalid (you can hardly control your PC from itself!)

Try doing it from the other PC to the primary.  If it fails then you have a firewall blocking it.

Hey Neil, thanks for the help:

IP on Machine 1: 157.56.33.128
IP on machine 2: 172.28.129.78, 157.53.33.166

I mistyped before (or rather it was stripped out by the editor because I used GT,LT tags), I meant to say that I was typing

http://[machine2]:30564 from [machine1], as well as trying the reverse. Both report MULTIPLICITYD instead of a digit code.

I would have thought it was the firewall as well - but if I'm actually getting a response on the 30564 port, I'd think that means that the firewall's not blocking the request.

Thanks for the assist again!

--jim

PS: I tried Synergy out on SourceForge and it works; albeit it's not as nice as Mulitplicity IMO.

157.* addresses are not non routable IPs.  That is why Multiplicity is refusing to allow you to connect.

Multiplicity will only allow the following IP ranges when you enable that option

10.*

192.168.*

172.16.* - 172.31.*

I think the problem you are seeing is Vista is preventing Multipl.exe from editing the registry as the keys for that option are local machine settings.

If you close multipl.exe on the secondary PC and then run it again using Run as Administrator, you should be able to modify those keys.  You might need to reboot having changed them.

The next update of Multiplicity (v 1.2) should avoid this problem on the secondary.