Multiplicity Cannot Find IP of Machine After VPN Session

from WinCustomize Forums
I've got my multiplicity setup so that it looks for my laptop's IP address everytime since the laptop uses wireless and gets its IP from the router's DHCP service. This works fine until I use VPN on my desktop machine. After which, the IP the desktop gets for the laptop name is always 192.168.1.254. It affects my ping as well. If I ping using my laptop's name, it thinks it's 192.168.1.254. But if I use the real IP address, it's fine. Repairing the desktop's LAN connection does not work. How do you delete the internal caching of machine names to IP addresses on WinXP? Is this MP's fault? I don't ever remember having this problem before.
thinkdesk
4,049 views 2 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I might suggest the following:

If on the Primary machine, you right click the Mult. icon, and go to configure. There's a list of your attached computers, Right click the one that changes i.p. addresses and choose configure.

There's an option here that says 'look up the i.p. address each time' This should cause Multiplicity to try and locate the machine before connecting, instead of making an assumption about it's i.p. address.

If it's not that, it's possibly a problem I'm about to add a post on; you can't really control what i.p. address multiplicity listens on, and when you have a VPN up & start Multiplicity, it probably configures itself to listen on the VPN interface, instead of your network. In this case, I'd suggest restarting the stardock service after you disconnect your VPN. To do this, go start > run > 'services.msc' and OK; Locate "stardock Multiplicity" and select it. There's a single button for stop start at the top of the screen that looks like []|> (stop / play) that should do the trick. Double click the mult. icon now, and check out the address at the top of the page (title bar)

Good luck!
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I apologize for the delayed response (I had somehow overlooked your forum post).

You could use (P) and (S) for primary and secondary naming schemes. It would also help if you could initially specify which machine (desktop or laptop) is primary and which is secondary.

Which version of Windows (including service packs) are you running on your two machines?
What version of multiplicity are you using?
What vpn client and version are you using?

I've forwarded your issue to the development team.

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Curtains - Customize Windows with additional styles