Synergy seemed to have problem with Windows 8

I was in vacation and yet still try to stay productive.  So I set up my EeeSlate as hoping to make it "linked" (at least from user experience perspective) to my work machine Dell 6600 using freeware Synergy.  It didn't however work as I expected as the client kept saying that it couldn't connect to the server.  After a while, I gave up.  :-<   Maybe I'll try it later when I have time.