Because I'm still unclear on this whole function and the primers seem a bit lacking...

1. The wu on my local processor is still crunching while I am monitoring another location??

2. What is the default location to return to my local processor? I tried "localhost", but it still saw this as a networked location.
(e.g. I selected "show graphics" and it asked if I really wished to display graphics on a remote machine.)

3. All of the trial and error locations I entered into the "Host Name" field will purge themselves in time?
(i.e. //Mondas(oops) \\Mondas(no) Mondas(Yea!) )

TIA

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use the ip of that unit

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Semper Eadem
So long Paul, it has been a hell of a ride.

Park your ego's, fire up the computers, Science YES, Credits No.

use the ip of that unit

OK, that was a useless answer.
I take that back, I did infer that the interface is wholely network based.
(There is no local connection, but a remote connection to the local machine via the network.)

fyi: For those of use with a non critical network, my IPs are not static.
My machine names however, are constant.


So, I would like to ask these same questions again please.
Thanks

1. The wu on my local processor is still crunching while I am monitoring another location??

Yes. Boinc doesn't crunch a unit, the science application running under Boinc does. You can also just open up a second (and third and fourth etc.) instance of the Boincmanager. Then point them all to your different machines.

2. What is the default location to return to my local processor? I tried "localhost", but it still saw this as a networked location.

Default location is 127.0.0.1
That's the standard internal loop-back address for your PC.

3. All of the trial and error locations I entered into the "Host Name" field will purge themselves in time?

Good question. Someone else?

fyi: For those of use with a non critical network, my IPs are not static.
My machine names however, are constant.

You did setup the remote_hosts.cfg file in your Boinc directory?
See here for an example.

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use the ip of that unit

OK, that was a useless answer.
I take that back, I did infer that the interface is wholely network based.
(There is no local connection, but a remote connection to the local machine via the network.)

fyi: For those of use with a non critical network, my IPs are not static.
My machine names however, are constant.


So, I would like to ask these same questions again please.
Thanks

Thank you for the vote of confidence, my network uses static ips so it was not as usless as you are.....

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Semper Eadem
So long Paul, it has been a hell of a ride.

Park your ego's, fire up the computers, Science YES, Credits No.

3. All of the trial and error locations I entered into the "Host Name" field will purge themselves in time?
(i.e. //Mondas(oops) \Mondas(no) Mondas(Yea!) )

If you know how to edit your registry, those values are stored in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Manager\ComputerMRU

Be very careful about editting the registry!!

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