Hi All,

I hope that I'm not covering old ground here, but I couldn't find anything on this issue as it relates to Windows hosts.

I recently added a new Win Vista host running the 6.2.19 BOINC manager and want to be able to view/control it from another host on my home network. On the new host, I updated the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file with another password and added a remote_hosts.cfg file in the same directory with appropriate IP addresses and host names.

Having done that, I'm not able to connect to the new host from a remote host running Win XP and 6.2.14. I can ping either host from the other, so I'm sure that I have the IP addresses/hostnames correct in the remote_hosts.cfg file.

I'm new to Vista, so I'm wondering if there's something else I have to do to make remote access possible.

Thanks for any advice and apologize if I've missed something in the documentation or forums.

Cheers,

Mark

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Did you add an exception to the Vista firewall to allow port 31416 traffic on the local network?

Did you add an exception to the Vista firewall to allow port 31416 traffic on the local network?

I have the Vista firewall turned off at the moment.

1) put controlhost's local addresses in the remote_hosts.cfg on newhost, not controlhost's hostname, and
2) when you try to connect to the remote client, give newhost's address rather than newhost's hostname

I've tried all combinations of IP addresses and hostnames in both places without any luck.

On another Win XP host, I had the same trouble when I upgraded it to a version 6 client. I have no trouble at all connecting to it with it running 5.10.45.

Well, the good news is that I can now connect to the remote host that I was having trouble with before. The bad news is that I don't know why! :-(

I made no changes that I know of in terms of IP addresses, hostnames, config files, Vista settings, etc. All I did was re-boot the Vista machine a few times for reasons other than any deliberate attempt to fix this problem.

I'll chalk this one up to operator error and/or some slip-up while climbing the Vista learning curve -- except that I don't think I learned anything...

Thanks to BobCat and Dag for your input.

MarkR

It sounds like the only error the operator made was failing to restart BOINC client after altering remote_hosts.cfg and gui_rpc_auth.cfg.

That could very well have been it.

If you make changes to BOINC and they don't seem to work then stop and restart the client.

Sage advice, indeed. Thanks. :-)