I just fired up my LivePC. Hamachi does not seem to be working anymore ... I wonder if it's because it went commercial when the logmein crowd purchased them. I did the following: Changed the network settings for the LivePC from NAT to bridged ( so that the livePC would have a unique IP address on my network. NAT would work too but it involves more configuration ). Fired up the LivePC Double clicked on the "Upgrade Synapse-livePC" icon on the desktop to let it upgrade the synapse-server Double clicked on the "start synapse.sh" script on the desktop and chose "Run" Let it update itself, and then download all the accessories programs I think I restarted it to make sure it was running ( step 4 ) Open a terminal to check the ip address using ifconfig - and this told me that eth2 was running on 192.168.1.106 ( this will differ for you ) Opened a synapse client on the windows side and pointed it to 192.168.1.106:8011 with credentials of Graham/password And I was in .... Changing from NAT to bridged means I don't have access to shared folders on my windows PC. When Hamachi was working we could access the synapse server using it's Hamachi iP address and not worry about the NAT/Bridged mode setttings ....