1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC unable to connect to core client (Message 47039) Posted 3 Jan 2013 by dfbv Post: What BOINC giveth so shall BOINC take away. The problem will return. The reason you don't see it now is because you're not triggering it. I think you haven't seen the box where you enter the password yet. In BOINC manager's Advanced View click Advanced -> Select Computer, a dialogue box pops up. For hostname just leave it blank if you want to connect to localhost. Enter the password from gui_rpc_auth.cfg in the password box. On Linux the problem triggers when BOINC manager cannot find gui_rpc_auth.cfg. If it can't find that file it can't look up the password and then it cannot connect to the client. The reason it cannot find gui_rpc_auth.cfg is usually because it starts with a current directory that is not the BOINC data directory. It's strategy seems to be look in the current direct5ory and then in the home directory. I think it probably works similar on Windows so use the same trick on Windows as Linux and in the user's home directory put a link (shortcut) that points to the gui_rpc_auth.cfg in the BOINC data directory. Don't place copies of gui_rpc_auth.cfg in the home directory because if the original one changes the copies become useless. Use a link. That way If the original changes the link still points to the correct password.

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