Synergy Desktop Path Error

I recently started working on a mobile project which afforded me the opportunity to flex my iOS development skills again. I installed the latest version of Synergy on my MacBook and my main laptop. I used the setup I had before which loaded correctly, but I started receiving this error which prevented me from connecting my Mac to my PC host.

ERROR: failed to get desktop path, no drop target available, error=2

Googling wasn't fruitful so I looked at the settings which looked as I expected. I finally tried unchecking the "Elevate" checkbox and clicked "Apply". The error went away and I was able to connect. "Elevate" should mean that the service will run in elevated/administrator mode. I found no events being raised in the event log and I believe I had the Synergy application successfully using the Elevate option in the past. Whatever the root cause was, not using the "Elevate" option fixed the issue.

For those that do not know about Synergy, it is an
application which allows you to share your keyboard and mouse with other computers over a network. I have been using Synergy for years and find is especially useful when I need to switch between multiple computers frequently.

IP Subnet Mask Expander The Web Client

In a previous post, I created a Node.Js project, IPSubnetMaskToIPRange, that takes a file with a list of IP subnet masks and then outputs 2 CSV files (one of the IP ranges and one of the expanded IP ranges).

Sometimes when I create a cool project, I end up having flashes of changes and improvements that I can make to it. This is one of those cases.

This project uses the same base functionality as the Node.Js project. This has the same functionality, except it is completely run from the browser leveraging AngularJS and Bootstrap 3. It outputs the ranges to the screen and provides buttons to download the IP ranges and the expanded IP ranges.

The working site can be found at IP Subnet Mask Expander and the source can be found on GitHub.