The last days I was trying to share keyboard and mouse between two PCs in my office, instead than having two PCs, two keyboard, two mouses … with lots of papers, printer, sometimes scanner … It become very annoying. So I found the solution to use Synergy which allow to share keyboard and mouse between many desktops or laptops. The solution sounds great, but I wasn’t enable to use it and had always a problem with the winxp client.
After lot of trials, I found a much more better solution, and more accessible one, which was based on VNC. Since I already run a VNC server on m ubuntu, the implementation was more than easier. I just had to install Win2VNC on the winxp box and configure it to connect to the ubuntu VNC server. You have just to enable remote desktop on ubuntu from System > Preferences > Remote Desktop, and be sure to add a good password :
There is nothing else to do, I just removed keyboard and mouse from ubuntu and now using only one keyboard and a single mouse to work on both PCs. There is more solutions that you can do, but I found this one the easiest.
