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I have a fresh install of Vista Ultimate x64. I have installed and uninstalled WCG Boinc several times. Trying to run as a service. After installing, I've removed the Read-Only attributes of the Boinc files in the c:\program files (x86)\boinc folder - no help. After uninstalling, I've tried deleting the boinc folder from c:\programs files (x86), deleting the boinc folder in the hidden c:\program data folder, deleting the bionc_master folder in the the c:\users folder, and removing the associated user accounts and group accounts that are created by boinc. I've made sure that boinc and boincmgr are both in the exceptions list in Windows Firewall and even added TCP port 31416.
The only way I can get it to work is if I launch boinc.exe by navigating to the boinc folder and double-clicking the boinc.exe file. It launches it in a command prompt window (it's not even an Administrator command prompt). Then I launch boincmgr. At that point they connect and work properly. When I open Task Manager, the process boinc.exe shows Owner for the User Name. Owner is the name I chose for the user account on this machine during Windows setup. When it is launched as a service, boinc_master is the User Name listed in Task Manager. I'm stumped. I can't seem to get it to work when it is automatically started as a service. I've even tried changing the service Log On to Owner. The Owner account does not have a password. It still won't connect. I really want this to work by itself. The computer its installed on is capable of crunching a lot of data. HCC 6.42's take about 1:15 and HFCC's take 5.5 to 7.5 hours. Relevant Specs: Motherboard = Asus - Republic Of Gamers - Maximus II Formula CPU = Intel Core2Quad Q9550 2.83 GHz w/ 12MB cache RAM = 8GB (4x2GB) Corsair Dominator PC8500 I'm at wits end here and am just about ready to wipe & reload. Am willing to entertain suggestions. As of now I am setting boincmgr to No New Tasks in preparation for the reload. cgos stats: Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 20:001:16:55:12 (#2,759) Points Generated (Rank) 10,133,426 (#4,906) Results Returned (Rank) 27,308 (#3,312) My Team: University of Illinois - UIC - UIS - UIUC |
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Hi,
Whilst installing, what was the selection for "Allow all users on this computer to control BOINC"? (FAQ point 4., 2nd frame, right over the gray word "Installshield". When installing as service, administrator, the users need including in the ''boinc'' group. Don't know why the one user/administrator doing the installing is not included. At one point in time I set the BOINCmgr to also start in administrator, but that always calls up a screen to confirm permission to make changes, so I've reverted to recommending to "allow all users". Then BOINCmgr will connect without question... at least for me. Second possible: You're using the 6.10.58 of WCG. Try the 6.10.58 of Berkeley, and 64 bit at that (though not really needed): http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/boinc_6.10.58_windows_x86_64.exe Either way, to get to the "Allow all users", you'd have to uninstall first. Installing the 64 bit will remove the 32 bit version automatically though [IIRC] Let us know. --//-- |
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I did select the "Allow all users..." option. I will try your suggestion and post the results. Thx.
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Was fighting with this myself, to connect BOINC Manager to the core client and could not get it with localhost and the password stored in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file **and then remembered to type the actual localhost IP which is 127.0.0.1 and the password and sure enough, it connected. After exiting BOINCmgr and restarting it had remembered.
** With a simple ASCII text editor such as Notepad you can change the PW to something simple. The 32 hex [random] character value no one will remember, plus it's different for every other host... make it same for all on your LAN. --//-- PS, this was on Linux, which is to say, it may not be the answer for windows, but on Windows 127.0.0.1 has always worked for me. |
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Thanks. I will give that a try.
I did get it working by uninstalling and reinstalling without selecting the 'start as a service' option. Although it connects now, boincmgr won't run automatically at system startup due to UAC. I suppose I could disable UAC but would rather not. |
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