Thank you BobCat13.

After removing and re-installing Boinc *again*, I used your suggestion with Sekerob's change in account key entry and got a change. There is now a specific reference to WCG in the communication sequence. However the result is ultimately the same. The user name or password is reported to be incorrect, when I *know* it is correct. See below:

8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.28 for windows_intelx86
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8i zlib/1.2.3
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Running under account Ken
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1]
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||OS: Microsoft : x86 Editon, (06.01.7600.00)
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Memory: 2.25 GB physical, 4.49 GB virtual
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Disk: 931.41 GB total, 908.66 GB free
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Local time is UTC -4 hours
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM|http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/|URL: http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1151.07MB
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2071.93MB
8/18/2010 9:33:54 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
8/18/2010 9:33:55 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/get_project_config.php

Repeated login attempts merely add a repeat of the last line above.

I was hopeful

DadUdderGuy,

Something is weird with the url path in the log 2x http:// :

http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/;

with the second http missing the second forward slash as in http:/ . Is that correctly entered in the account_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml file?

Specifically, go to the attach box and do not pick rather enter the url WITHOUT the http:// prefix so www.worldcommunitygrid.org .

For testing I attached to a GPU crunching project and the log shows a clean url no double http:// (but my client is a different version, so don't know if this is just something wrong in the way the message log prints it out)

Now, if you look in the Projects tab it should show you're attached to WCG as when this line

8/15/2010 11:51:02 AM||This computer is not attached to any projects

is no longer there and it specifically the Computer ID is not assigned.

** Plz do try the boinccmd line to see if that kicks something if the client is not showing in the project tab to be associated to WCG. If attached, detach first and then do the boinccmd.

cheers

I did indeed err. Here are messages after correcting.

8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.28 for windows_intelx86
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8i zlib/1.2.3
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Running under account Ken
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1]
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni mmx
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||OS: Microsoft : x86 Editon, (06.01.7600.00)
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Memory: 2.25 GB physical, 4.49 GB virtual
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Disk: 931.41 GB total, 908.43 GB free
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Local time is UTC -4 hours
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM|http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/|URL: http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1151.07MB
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2071.93MB
8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM||Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB
8/19/2010 5:56:15 PM||Fetching configuration file from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/get_project_config.php

Here is the worldcommunitygrid.org.xml file

<account>
>master_url>http://www.worldcommunity.org/</master_url>
<authenticator>account_key</authenticator>
</account>

Does this help?

DatUdderGuy

still

8/19/2010 5:56:14 PM|http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/|URL: http://http:/www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default

with a slash missing. Maybe did you not restart the client? If once read, the client might not try rereading.

I think that if the http:// is not found in it's entirety, the logic is trained to prefix http:// to the url.

Anyway, the experts are on deck, so go with that and please edit your last post and corrupt the account key.

Thank you, Sekerod. I have edited out my account number. Ken