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Vista SP2 RTM: no longer remote boinc
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Morten Ross Send message Joined: 30 Apr 01 Posts: 183 Credit: 385,664,915 RAC: 0 |
Hi, I've been running Vista SP2 beta and RC, and remote connect to Boinc on Vista SP2 has not been a problem, but after SP2 RTM was installed I am no longer able to connect to Boinc from a remote computer. No error is reported on the Boinc manager I'm connecting from (it simply stays indefinitely on "connecting to xxxx.."), and on the remote Vista SP2 host there is no firewall port-blocks listed. Bottom line is that the only change is the installation of the final version of SP2, and Boincmanager or BoincView are no longer able to remotely view/connect to boinc on the Vista SP2 host. I know there are reports of other software that did encounter problems after SP2 RTM, but I've not seen Boinc listed (or generic rpc-issues)... Anyone else...? Morten Morten Ross |
Paul D. Buck Send message Joined: 19 Jul 00 Posts: 3898 Credit: 1,158,042 RAC: 0 |
My first guess would be that they closed all the firewall ports. Including the one that BOINC is trying to use. You may have to explicitly list the port as being open rather than to look to see if it is closed. I do not recall the port numbers that BOINC uses to connect... |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65735 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
My first guess would be that they closed all the firewall ports. Including the one that BOINC is trying to use. You may have to explicitly list the port as being open rather than to look to see if it is closed. I do not recall the port numbers that BOINC uses to connect... BoincView says It's: 31416 The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Morten Ross Send message Joined: 30 Apr 01 Posts: 183 Credit: 385,664,915 RAC: 0 |
Hi, I stated in initial post "..there is no firewall port-blocks listed.", so that's not the issue, unfortunately. Turning firewall off also does not change a thing. Detatching from domain to see if some group policy setting was related to the changed behaviour also did not change the outcome. Even switched between wired and wireless NIC, but same outcome. There must be some undocumented change in SP2 RTM from SP2 RC, as RC did not have this behaviour. Are there anyone else running Vista x86 Ultimate SP2 RTM? Morten Morten Ross |
elbea64 Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 114 Credit: 6,352,198 RAC: 0 |
If boinc is not listed in your firewall then boincs ports are closed. You have to add boinc as allowed application in your firewall. If boinc is already listed, as you state ports are open, you should check the settings what is allowed |
Morten Ross Send message Joined: 30 Apr 01 Posts: 183 Credit: 385,664,915 RAC: 0 |
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elbea64 Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 114 Credit: 6,352,198 RAC: 0 |
I missed that Is it a fresh install of vista + sp2 or is it the system that was running the betas of sp2? If it's your beta testing system i suggest to do a clean install of vista + sp2 to eliminate the possibility of interference with any beta junk i'm installing sp2 atm, so you can wait until it's done, but be patient, it's my slowest notebook ;) |
Jörg Send message Joined: 10 Dec 02 Posts: 51 Credit: 1,547,286 RAC: 0 |
If it's your beta testing system i suggest to do a clean install of vista + sp2 to eliminate the possibility of interference with any beta junk Hello, I suggest not to install the SP2 until it is "officially" released and updates for other programs are available to work with the new version. Am Ende ist nur Verwirrung |
elbea64 Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 114 Credit: 6,352,198 RAC: 0 |
The RTM version is the officially version I just installed it and the installation process was smoothly with a little hickup where it presented me the installer of hhd hexeditor again. But after installing hhd again everything works fine including BOINC and remote BOINC. |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
The RTM version is the officially version It is possible that XP has different rights/requirements and the account BOINC is on does not have the right to access the network. Rights can be a real pain. |
elbea64 Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 114 Credit: 6,352,198 RAC: 0 |
i think there's no XP involved - all vista and BOINC teached me the pain of rights, try to run it on a vista domain-client with restricted user rights and BOINC-devs better keep away from you ;) |
1mp0£173 Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 8423 Credit: 356,897 RAC: 0 |
i think there's no XP involved - all vista You're right. Given that it is Vista, and Vista has a lot more "security" I would expect an update to SP2 to block applications -- not in a firewall, but to simply limit access to the IP stack itself. |
Morten Ross Send message Joined: 30 Apr 01 Posts: 183 Credit: 385,664,915 RAC: 0 |
The RTM version is the officially version Hi, What did you test? Did you test that a host other than the Vista SP2 could connect to BOINC on the Vista SP2 host? Connecting to remote BOINCs FROM the Vista SP2 works OK, but not from remote hosts TO BOINC on the Vista SP2. Morten Morten Ross |
elbea64 Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 114 Credit: 6,352,198 RAC: 0 |
I connected from a vista sp1 host using BOINC Manager Perhaps i can test sp2 on a vista 64 host today the host i tried yesterday has uac turned off with an admin account |
elbea64 Send message Joined: 16 Aug 99 Posts: 114 Credit: 6,352,198 RAC: 0 |
OK i installed a new vista business x64 as a domain client today, sadly i forgot to test remote BOINC before i installed ESET smart security, so my first try to connect to BOINC from another host ended at the ESET firewall. I disabled the firewall and everything runs as expected. I set up a firewall rule and it still works - in both directions. I believe one of the betas in conjunction with the rtm messed up your system |
Morten Ross Send message Joined: 30 Apr 01 Posts: 183 Credit: 385,664,915 RAC: 0 |
Hi Holger, Yup - it seems so, as not even uninstalling SP2 helped (!!)... I'm not sure I want to spend much more time on this, as I have no other issues a nd this is not really an important lack of functionality. Thanks for your input :-) Morten Morten Ross |
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