After reading through the forums here, and doing my own testing, here is what I have been able to:

- Run BOINC as a servce via installing by DOS prompt 'boinc_cli -install'

Ideally, I would like to run as a service with the following command lines:
- allow_remote_gui_rpc
- return_results_immediately

I feel having this setup:
- is the cleanest setup that would allow me to use BoincView to access and control my multiple PC's accessing the PC's via the GUI RPC option
- allow BoincView from one PC to control all my PC's
- allow the event viewer to log activity. This is a really nice option especially for filtering
- still allow me save and have the text log we are all familiar with via BOINC GUI
- running as a service allows processing without user log-in.

Unfortunately, I have not been able to make those parameters work within the service:
1. I updated the registry with the additional parameters (along with -win_service). Those additional parameters showed up in the properties of the BOINC service but they were ignored. I guess that only one parameter works when using BOINC as a service.
2. I could not type any additional parameters in under properties of the BOINC service
3. I verified the additional properties didn't work by looking at the RPC errors that the event log recorded

I could run via the BOINC_CLI in a DOS box, but that's not really clean due to having the dos box, AND it doesn't create any logs in the event viewer.

I was able to add the additional two parameters to the BOINC GUI shortcut - BoincView works with all my PC's, no RPC errors, and I can control all PC's via BoincView -- but agian, this isn't as clean having the service.

I tried to fool around with creating the access control file "remote_hosts.cfg" but I couldn't get the BOINC SERVICE didn't act any differently.

Can you guys share with me your experiences? Specifically:
1. Can anyone explain how the "remote_hosts.cfg" file works and in what scenario's do you use it
2. Has anyone been able to add BOINC_CLI command line parameteres to a BOINC SERVICE?
3. Does performce change between using GUI, DOS box, or as a Service?
4. What are your setup's?

Maybe this thread can start a discussion on this topic -- there seems to be a few threads that have little pieces here and there and it's hard to find the answers....

Thanks Everyone.

D

Hi,
for the moment you will not be able to do as you want by using boinc_cli alone. Perhaps you might be successful with apptoservice from basta.com which I used for seti running as a service (and with apptoservice you can give all parameters you want as long as the program is honoring them). I didn't try with boinc yet because there is no sense for me as long as it seems to be impossible to get work units. When the work units might flow sometimes in the future ;-) I might be interested in running boinc as a service though...

Bye
Peter

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