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Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 82 |
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 |
Send message Joined: 6 Dec 06 Posts: 118 |
Did you add an exception to the Vista firewall to allow port 31416 traffic on the local network? |
Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 82 |
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. |
Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 82 |
1) put controlhost's local addresses in the remote_hosts.cfg on newhost, not controlhost's hostname, and 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. |
Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 82 |
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 |
Send message Joined: 4 Jul 08 Posts: 82 |
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. :-) |
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