I'm trying to pair my ~/music repositories on my two laptops (Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04) using the Linux standalone tarball on my home WiFi network. After entering the same passphrase on both machines, nothing happens, both remain in "Pairing in progress" state.

The router I'm using is, I think, fairly standard, it's a ZyXEL P-2812HNU-F1 with factory settings.

Are others having the problem too? Any advice where I should start looking for what goes wrong?

It's not clear from your description whether you

a) Started the pairing process independently on both machines... which probably doesn't work.

b) Started pairing on one machine, and the other one noticed and popped up a pair request alert where you re-entered the password.

If b) didn't happen, then the the pairing broadcast is not being seen by the second machine. You can try using tcpdump or wireshark to see the traffic. The traffic will look like this:

19:45:11.125893 IP 10.1.1.2.43376 > 224.0.0.1.55556: UDP, length 692

If all is going well, you should be able to see that on both the machine that's initiating the pairing and the other machine. And every other machine on the network for that matter.

Comment by http://joeyh.name/ Thu Oct 11 23:48:37 2012
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