I suspect whatever that was it was also why drag & drop stopped working from the primary to the secondary.  We will have to take a close look at the code that handles that logic and see if it could get stuck in a loop without stopping switching too.

If it happens again try to remember what you had been doing just before as it might let us narrow it down further.

I'm having trouble installing the beta on my secondary machine. It tells me that I need to uninstall the old version of multiplicity first and then reboot. I did that and still got the same message. I rebooted again. Same message. I installed Stardock Central, reinstalled the old version, then uninstalled it and rebooted and still got the same message.

Now I'm trying revo uninstaller...

You are not running the installer from a network drive are you?

That can confuse the installer and it shows the MP 1 installed message.

So far it's been a dud for me. Been a Multiplicity user for years and for the first time my link between computers has been broken. Will uninstall and get back to the previous version. I use Windows 7

I wrestled with it for a couple of hours trying to get it to work. No luck. The primary sees the secondary fine, i can add it to the grid and that's about it.

No way it will connect. I went as far to disable the firewalls completely using gpedit.msc but all i see is when i open the primary, on the grid the secondary will light up for a few seconds as if trying to connect and then goes blank.

Win7 and Win 2008 r2 both x64

I clicked and added it. It showed up automatically.

But pinging doesn't work indeed strange because it's accesible via all computers attached. The IP adress is correct.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\system32>ping mediaserver

Pinging mediaserver.lan [192.168.1.12] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.12:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

NOTE - Below is a copy of the email I sent to Stardock support yesterday.
Today, I found this forum thanks to a user in your IRC channel, so I'm
posting this support request here as well, because I doubt that the regular
support staff is properly equipped to receive beta test feedback.  I've
updated the email slightly from the one I sent to support yesterday to
reflect things I noticed since then.

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I'm not certain where to submit bug reports for the current beta test of
Multiplicity 2.0, and I can't seem to find a beta forum that lists
currently known issues. As such I apologize if I am sending this bug
report to the wrong place, and I also apologize if I am reporting issues
that are already known. If I should be sending bug reports somewhere else,
please let me know?

I've got three systems arranged in a row, and a system below the center
system.  The system on the far right is the primary.

O O O <-Primary
   O

The top three systems are connected via Cat6 cable to a HP Procurve gigabit
switch. The bottom system (The OQO) is connected via Wireless N.

The 2.0 beta of Multiplicity seems to lose connection to the secondary
computers on occasion. It's generally only for a second or two and then
control returns. This is accompanied by a taskbar popup that indicates the
connection was lost and then restored. This did -not- happen in the
previous version of Multiplicity that I just upgraded from. For testing
purposes, I set up continuous pings from my primary PC to the secondary
systems, and during the periods of time that Multiplicity disconnected, the
ping tests didn't show any drops or even an increase in ping time. I
performed several tests, uninstalling the new Multiplicity, restarting each
computer, reinstalling the old one, and testing for a while. The drops
definitely do not happen with the old Multiplicity, and they start
happening again when I reinstall the new one. -- Update -- Today, the
drops haven't been happening at all.  I cannot say with confidence if
the drops are a Multiplicity issue, or not.

The mouse control works well, but I find that (A) the Scroll Lock toggle to
lock to a specific PC won't toggle consistently unless your mouse is on the
master PC screen. On the secondary systems, scroll lock doesn't seem to
always work. It's intermittent and somewhat infrequent, however, and might
be hard to duplicate. If I can come up with way to consistently duplicate
the symptoms I will let you know.

The keyboard control seems to give me the most trouble. Sometimes, even
though I have moved the mouse to one of the secondary screens, the keyboard
input continues to be directed to the primary computer. I haven't been
able to identify why this is happening, but it happens frequently enough
that I keep an extra keyboard and mouse around to connect one of the other
PCs just in case. When this is happening, occasionally one or two of the
letters will be send to the target PC. During the time that this is
happening, mouse control on the secondary machines continues to work fine.
Pressing Control three times causes the single-pc / all PCs function to
toggle (I hear the beeps) but it doesn't change anything - Input continues
to only go the primary PC regardless of which PC currently has focus.

The ability to just drag items between desktops is *fantastic*. It's a
little bit inconsistent, though, as sometimes the icon you are dragging
just kind of "stops" at the border between workstations and the mouse
pointer keeps going.  (I'm not holding down any keys when attempting
to drag and drop) Also, sometimes the copy and paste functionality
doesn't work. I haven't noticed a common thread with regard to what makes
those functions fail. They work most of the time.

Occasionally the "Lock on full screen application" mode will lock the mouse
to the current PC even if there isn't a full screen application running.

The sound transfer functionality (Which basically appears to be Acoustic
Bridge?) works flawlessly, I haven't encountered any problems there.

If I was to make a suggestion, I would say that giving the users more
choice with regard to setting up what hotkeys they would like to use would
be nice. For example, I'd to be able to choose something other that
pressing control three times to toggle multi PC input, and to be able to
pick what key I want to toggle screen locking instead of scroll lock. Your
best competition is a program called Input Director - It offers a robust
system where you can set up specific macros (for lack of a better term)
which will execute specific commands on specific workstations. (For
example, when I was using Input Director with a multiple desktop manager, I
had a single keystroke (the ~ key) which automatically sent that command to
all workstations, causing each one to switch from Desktop 1 to desktop 2.
I can do the same thing with Multiplicity, but I have to press control
three times, then press the tilde key, then press control three more times
to turn it off. That's a seven keystroke process that I was able to
accomplish with one keystroke using Input Director.

Anyhow, thanks for the Multiplicty update. The new features are great, I
think it just needs a bit more polish and it'll be the best mutliPC/single
keyboard product in the world.

I've got the keyboard problem happening right at this very moment.  If I move the mouse to a secondary PC and click an input field and type, the letters appear only here, on the primary PC, and not on the secondary.  Let me do a more thorough test and tell you what I find.

Okay:  It appears that modifier keys are still being sent to the secondary when this error is occurring.  The Windows key makes the start menu pop up on the secondary, and the backspace key erases existing text on the secondary, and the mouse is fully functional on the secondary.  However, any "regular" keys (1-0, a-z, etc) get sent to the primary PC even though the focus is on the secondary PC.  I suspect the Shift key is also being sent, but I determine that only by noticing that when I have the focus on the secondary PC and I type and the letters appear on the primary PC as I described, if I hold shift down, the letters that are being sent to the Primary do not become capital letters.  (Hopefully I am making sense)  Based on this I would hazard a guess that other special keys are being sent as well.  Let me try Tab.  Yes - Tab is sent to the secondary PC successfully, I can shift the cursor between input boxes with it.

I just tested with another of my secondary PCs, and the problem appears to be happening on all of them, identical symptoms.

I tested by pressing control three times.  I got the double beep that indicates input should be sent to all connected PCs, but there's no actual change in the behavior.  The symptoms are identical, regardless of whether or not Multiplicity is supposed to be sending to all connected PCs or just the PC with focus at the time.

My tests have shown that if I reboot the Primary PC the problem will go away temporarily.  If I reboot one of the secondaries (or all of them) it doesn't appear to change anything.

Hopefully my testing will prove helpful to you!  If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, I'm happy to assist.

now i get this

Is that supposed to be "infamy", or "in flame"?  Because either would work well.  

Keyboard redirection failure can also be consistently duplicated if you've got Chrome with GMail open on your primary, and you are creating / replying to an email.