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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi All,
Tried to search but cant get this to work. Have a new computer with two user accounts: an admin one(call it "Admin") and one normal level user account(lets call it "PC" account). Ive installed WCG/Boinc as a service. In the admin account it runs fine(its performing calcs,returning results etc.). In the normal user account however it doesn't. Its loaded in the tray but it has a red 'X' in the icon - it states "Not connected to client". If I close it, and then start it using "...run as admininstrator" it loads fine. How can I get it to load normally on this user-level account? Hope Ive explained it ok & many thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Cian |
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duane534
Cruncher Joined: Feb 9, 2007 Post Count: 13 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Don't assume that because the manager isn't connecting to the project that it isn't crunching. Check your Task Manager and see where your CPU% is at. More than likely, your computer is working. Just your de-privileged account isn't being allowed to check it. Could be a firewall thing.
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Former Member
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Many thanks Duane, I checked in task manager and it appears to be running! I assumed when I couldnt get into the manager it wasn't running but I suppose thats only for the admin account.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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When you have installed you have not checked the box "Allow all users on this computer to control Boinc".
----------------------------------------Personally I think that it is the normal way to install as a service, therefore Boinc runs safely in the background as you defined it, whomever is using your PC. But you have to logon as "Admin" to see what happens. Cheers. Jean. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Jean,
Many thanks for your help! Hopefully WCG & the other Boinc projects will benefit from processing power that would have been wasted. Thanks for your reply! |
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