Synergy seems to work a lot better with Windows as a server than Mac OS X. Before I was experiencing weird bugs, like the there was no 8 on my numpad. When I pressed 7 8 9 it would print 7 9 9. Alt+tab didn’t work from the Apple keyboard, something about the Apple key not quite being the equivilent of ctrl. Anyway the deal breaker was it was taking far to long to get the mouse from monitor one to monitor four, especially when I was, for example doing email on 4 and chatting on 1. The obvious solution is to loop the displays so when I go to the edge of 4 it takes me back to the beginning of 1. I couldn’t get this to work and on a whim I started up Synergy as a server on one of the PCs and all the old problems have gone away.
I haven’t tried it at home, but I have it connecting two 2000 machines at work (one workstation, one server) Too bad about the os x server-mode issues, because I’m going to move one of my windows machines upstairs in the near future, it would have been nice to have that working right.
I originally wanted to run my server on OS X and ran into a lot of the same problems. It’s just not there at this point. As a client it’s fine, so I bit the bullet and set up OpenSSH for Windows for tunneling and set up both as Windows services. It’s not too bad.