Is there any way to setup boinc to locate data from a shared network drive? I remember that back in the day i used to simply run seti off the shared drive itself from whatever computer without needing to install separately. Can this still be done effectively? (havent tried it yet...didnt want to mess up an install because i have very little time to spend right now on anything)
-Rob

I saw an answer to this question b4 which said no it cant be done so I never looked at it again. I think the reasons related to seti instances getting the right WUs as they can vary from version to version....like 4.09 Wus cannot be processed by v4.10 I understand. There may be a better answer to come but that was my understanding.

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I don't think it can be done, but even if it could it would not be advicable. BOINC is much more strict about hosts than classic.

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sounds good. yeah, i used to take and run it on my old schools network when i was in highschool...had about 400 machines running seti and pulling the exe and all the WU's from a laptop i had hidden in a teachers desk. I was such a rebel! ;) that was put to an end when they finally got some managed switches and figured out where the compy was. I lost a great laptop, but thats what i get for doing it. A lesson to all of you...hide things better! :-P anyhow. It would certainly be a nice feature to be able to have a network-based boinc host that could parse units out to clients to help reduce overall network load. Maybe have somethign that you can set it to dl from the net at 4am or whenever and get enough packets to support the clients for the next few days, then load again when the server's cache is down to 10% or something like that...yet another thing to do suggested by someone that doesnt have the knowledge to do it!

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