It is kind of an advanced feature. Sorry....

But it is also secure. That's important, too.

Details are here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/RpcAuth

Please ask if it doesn't seem to work as planned. It is complicated.

But once it's set up, it's easy to use, and secure. Who could ask for more?

I think I'll stick with the UD.exe until I'm forced into BOINC ...or at least get a caffein high.

Concur.

Setting up BOINCview is fairly simple, I'll do my best to describe the process in laymens terms.

First of all, all computers must be on the same network, the default windows network is "workgroup" as seen in start>>control panel>>system>>computer name.

Also, it is best if you set each computers IP address manually so that they don't change and render BOINCview inoperative. Go to start>>all programs>>accessories>>command prompt and type in "ipconfig" to see this information. Then go to start>>control panel>>network connections, right-click on your internet connection and select "properties". In the scroll window select "Internet protocol(TC/IP)" and click "properties". Select the button next to "use the following IP address" and enter the inforrmation obtained from the command prompt. Then select the button for "use the following DNS server address" and enter your default gateway address in the first line. The second line can be left blank.

Repeat this process on all machines.

Now open a text editor such as notepad and type in the IP address of the
machine which will run BOINCview. Save this file as "remote_hosts.cfg" to your BOINC directory usually found in C:\program files\BOINC. Now open notepad again and type in the password you'd like to use. Save this file to your BOINC directory as "gui_rpc_auth.cfg". If the files already exist, overwrite them. Then restart BOINC and check the messages tab to see if "remote control allowed" appears. Repeat this process on all machines. Saving the .cfg files to a flash drive or floppy to transfer to other machines can save a few steps if you prefer.

Now it's time to setup BOINCview. Go to options>>locations and click "add location". Type in a name for a remote machine (can be any name you choose, not just the computer name, and select "get data via network access". Enter the IP address of the remote machine and the password you saved in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file and click apply. Repeat these steps for all locations you'd like to monitor including the machine BOINCview is installed on.

And that's all there is too it. Sounds complicated but follow the steps carefully and you'll get it done. There are many settings and tweaks in BOINCview to play around with but I won't get into those here. You can explore those at your leisure as most are straight forward. Good luck and happy BOINCing!

Thanks for the information olympic (I copied to a Word Doc). I'll try to get BOINC going this next week and tell everyone what happens. I know I'm not a computer wiz, but I've conquered such things before.

Still, I wonder if it really matters if I use UD.exe. I know BOINC can download ahead of time, but I don't see my comps starting a new WU more than a few seconds after finishing the previous WU. I might just be losing 15sec or so per WU, but maybe it's worth it for staying simple.

~ Simple Dave