Stardock Multiplicity on Windows 7 or XP
Recently switched my secondary PC over to Windows 7 as well, and besides the headache from getting that playing nice and sharing with my other XP box, I was having some trouble getting Multiplicity to connect correctly between the two Windows 7 boxes and the XP box.
Sadly I found myself getting this unhelpful message:
Multiplicity has been unable to connect to the secondary machine.
If you have not yet installed Multiplicity on the secondary machine, this is perfectly normal.
If you have installed it and rebooted after installation, are you sure you have set the ip address, port, & password correctly?
It turns out there’s a fairly known issue with the services not installing/starting correctly, and lucky for me theres a simple fix that solved my problem right off.
If your having trouble connecting with Multiplicity between Windows 7 and XP, try the following bat file Mike from Stardock put together: