As Paul has ceased to host the Wiki, some Links have to be changed. Here's the updated info:

The (very good) manual for Boinc is the BoincWiki by Paul D. Buck and Friends.

Also quite useful for starting is the MiniFAQ by the TeamACC.

A quick installation guide in the Wiki is here.

For information regarding Credits look here!

Please don't post Questions and Problems here, only other useful links. This is just for information.

Start a new thread, or even better, search for old threads with answers!

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

The (very good) manual for Boinc is the BoincWiki by Paul D. Buck and Friends.

Also quite useful for starting is the MiniFAQ by the TeamACC.

A quick installation guide in the Wiki is here.

For information regarding Credits look here!

Please don't post Questions and Problems here, only other useful links. This is just for information.

Start a new thread, or even better, search for old threads with answers!

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

I can't seem to get anywhere. I have been a setiathome user for at least 6 years. I had 25,000 hours of CPU time racked up, running my computer constantly just to keep SETI running. I was in the top 5% of users, and then BOINC came along and I changed my email address and got a new computer. Now I'm denied access to BOINC because I've apparently got an account there at my new email address, and retrieving the user_info.sah off of my old computer to try to link it with a new account yields an invalid password kind of error. I've tried every combination of my old email account, new email account, and passwords to link the things up but nothing works. I would really like to get back to the business of crunching SETI data, but the new system seems to be set up to prevent me from doing this. I have tried just giving in and starting from scratch with BOINC, but this just isn't working. What I would really like to have happen is to get my old workunit credits back, and then get back to looking for ETI.

Thanks for any help that you might be able to provide.

Sincerely,

Tim Marsh, PhD
timmarsh@cableaz.com (currently)
timmarsh@gci-net.com (formerly)

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hello users,
bin noch neu hier und hab das zum ersten mal installiert,-wie geht das hier überhaupt? - sitze im internetcafe und habe wenig ahnung von pc
gruß nosfu

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It looks like you created a new classic account with the new e-mail address in June (they both have credit in classic) instead of just changing the e-mail address in the classic account. Since the address changed after the last database sync (March), BOINC won't recognize any changes to the classic account since then.

If you use the "user_info.sah" or the e-mail address and account key from classic before March and the current BOINC account key, you should be able to link them. I still see potential problems since since you have two classic accounts and they may not be resolved until after the final database sync.

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I can't seem to get anywhere. I have been a setiathome user for at least 6 years. I had 25,000 hours of CPU time racked up, running my computer constantly just to keep SETI running. I was in the top 5% of users, and then BOINC came along and I changed my email address and got a new computer. Now I'm denied access to BOINC because I've apparently got an account there at my new email address, and retrieving the user_info.sah off of my old computer to try to link it with a new account yields an invalid password kind of error. I've tried every combination of my old email account, new email account, and passwords to link the things up but nothing works. I would really like to get back to the business of crunching SETI data, but the new system seems to be set up to prevent me from doing this. I have tried just giving in and starting from scratch with BOINC, but this just isn't working. What I would really like to have happen is to get my old workunit credits back, and then get back to looking for ETI.

Thanks for any help that you might be able to provide.

Sincerely,

Tim Marsh, PhD
timmarsh@cableaz.com (currently)
timmarsh@gci-net.com (formerly)

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From this thread

I have attempted to create a miniFAQ for the Seti@Home boards, which I'm currently hosting on my website.

Once I've converted the HTML to BBCode I will post the miniFAQ on the Seti Forum.

If any body finds the FAQ acceptable please feel free to host it on your own site, and make improvements or changes. Please also feel free to refer to it or copy and paste sections of it in response to questions in the forums if you deem it useful or appropriate to the questioners.

Feel free to bookmark the page if you would like to refer to it when the Seti@Home site is down.

miniFAQ: 10 Frequently Asked Questions / Common Problems

1. How do I set up Seti@Home (or any other Boinc project)

2. How do I link my Classic account to Boinc

3a. Why can't I upload or download or connect to the server

3b. I've installed Boinc but it's still not working

4a. What is Boinc credit and where do I see it

4b. What's happened to my Classic credits

5. Where are all my Statistics and Figures

6a. How do I setup the Screen Saver

6b. How do I get the Classic Screen Saver back

7. Why has Classic closed

8. How do I find an answer to a question

9. Have the developers mentioned anything important recently

10. I want an Avatar and a Signature

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Join TeamACC

Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Hello, despite the useful guides Im still having problems... Ive downloaded Boinc and have had SETI running, but it has stopped, and I want to collect some new work and get it started again :(<p>

I think I detached the work or something whilst trying to make it work.<p>

Hope you can help me in words of one or two syllables :)


Many thanks,

Anna.

Anna,

Go into the projects tab of the Boinc Manager and see if SETI@home is still in there. If not link backup to the manager, then all should be fine. If it is there, you may need to reattach to the project. Barring that I would need more details on your situation.

Galeon 7

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I am a Geek. We surf in the dark web pages no others will enter.
We stand on the router and no one may pass.
We live for the Web. We die for the Web.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=22667#194010

It seems that the majority of users are frustrated that boinc comes back requesting proxy and socs when the user has none set.

Solution is quite simple. Do not open up the Boinc manager. Log onto your SETI account on the internet. After and only after you have logged in open Boinc. Now you can connect to the project and the proxy and socs will not show up.

The reason the proxy request shows up is because the user is not logged into the work URL before hand. This has nothing to do with the speed of the servers. It has to do with authentication.

Once the user logs onto the web, then they can open Boinc and the proxy request will not come up. They will be able to get in instantly!

Galeon 7

PS: When logging on the web check the box to stay on line otherwise repeat these steps. Stayin logged on will get you in automatically every time Boinc is started.

PPS: Lost the stickie. My orginal URL is at the beginning of this post. Imagine that. I can solve the logon problem and can't even work stickies lol

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I am a Geek. We surf in the dark web pages no others will enter.
We stand on the router and no one may pass.
We live for the Web. We die for the Web.

A few new users have problem with the URL when connecting to the project in Boinc.

I had the same problem on two of my computers.

What I found out then, was that my sollution was to restart the computer and try again. Then it worked excellent for me.

Also remember the huge amount of new users that are trying to connect at once now. It is possible that the servers and/or database can be overloaded. If so, try again in an hour or two. You can also try to connect to another Boinc project and see if that works better.

If none of the above works, you should take a look at your firewall-settings. I haven't had any problems there, so I can't help with that. But my expirience with Boinc so far is very good, and I hope you will have the same when you get things up and running.

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Greetings from Norway.
Crunching is fun!

I found a rather interesting post. I believe that it will save many people trouble in attaching to their classic accounts.

I found my password stored on the result_head.sah file. The password was stored as the user ID.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=18671#191186

[edit] added link [/edit]

I believe this should be verified as the user ID in the result_head.sah on my host does not correspond to the one I used as password.

I found a rather interesting post. I believe that it will save many people trouble in attaching to their classic accounts.

I found my password stored on the result_head.sah file. The password was stored as the user ID.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=18671#191186

[edit] added link [/edit]

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BOINC WIKI

Hi,

first, I know this is the ANSWER THE QUESTION section, but how do you ASK A QUESTION? There seems to be no way to do this!
Second, I've been involved in seti@home since 2000, but since March this year I haven't been able to send my completed work, or get new work!
Now I find you've changed the system with new accounts and this BOINC thing (what ever that means). I've downloaded BOINC, activated my acount, and received my account key, but it still doesn't work! I tried to link the new account to my seti@home clasic account, but I can't remember my old pasword. I tried to start a new account, but I'm told it can't do that because my email address is still in use by my old account!!!!!!!!
I've done over 17,000 hours and I'd like to keep going - but you're not making it easy for me!

Tell me what I've gotta do!

Peter (very frustrated)

Info from Classic is on your Boinc Acct.click on your name at the left in this post......

"If you look at the Classic stats on your BOINC account, you'll see that it clearly says: "SETI@home classic workunits as of 15 March 2005". This is because it's a database intensive process to bring over the stats. The databases are not dynamically connected. When the Classic side closes, the stats will again be brought over to the BOINC side of the project, and those numbers updated. NO CREDIT HAS BEEN OR WILL BE LOST.

That said, if you are having difficulty getting BOINC operating, please let us know what problems you're seeing. An assist to getting you going can be found in the Installation Guide in the Wiki. Though it hasn't yet been updated for the changes in the BOINC v. 5.2.x series, it's still got some good information."

MJ

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And the beat goes on
Sonny and Cher

BOINC Wiki

Hi,

first, I know this is the ANSWER THE QUESTION section, but how do you ASK A QUESTION? There seems to be no way to do this!
Second, I've been involved in seti@home since 2000, but since March this year I haven't been able to send my completed work, or get new work!
Now I find you've changed the system with new accounts and this BOINC thing (what ever that means). I've downloaded BOINC, activated my acount, and received my account key, but it still doesn't work! I tried to link the new account to my seti@home clasic account, but I can't remember my old pasword. I tried to start a new account, but I'm told it can't do that because my email address is still in use by my old account!!!!!!!!
I've done over 17,000 hours and I'd like to keep going - but you're not making it easy for me!

Tell me what I've gotta do!

Peter (very frustrated)

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Hello, despite the useful guides Im still having problems... Ive downloaded Boinc and have had SETI running, but it has stopped, and I want to collect some new work and get it started again :(<p>

I think I detached the work or something whilst trying to make it work.<p>

Hope you can help me in words of one or two syllables :)


Many thanks,

Anna.

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The Wiki has editors that were invited by Paul Buck to help out. For everyone else it's closed, if only to make sure someone can't go in there in a bad mood and delete everything.

The list of people who can edit the Wiki can be found here:
http://boinc-doc.net/boinc-wiki/index.php?title=Special:Listusers

We mostly use the same names as on the forums.
So yes, I can edit the Wiki. Want anything added or edited? :)

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Is it just me, or is there really no way for a newcomer to add to or edit this wiki?

Some useful links from the WIKI:


Installing the BOINC Client Software And Participating In A BOINC Powered Project


Installing The BOINC Client Software on Microsoft Windows®

Attaching The BOINC Client Software To A BOINC Powered Project


Hope this helps :)

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Join TeamACC

Sometimes I think we are alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we are not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The following is borrowed by Kinhull, please read as well:
(Some links are broken, sorry for that)

Copied from Help For Newbies Here


If you are a newbie to SETI or BOINC and you've accidentally
stumbled onto this post, I hope that you find some items in here useful:
<p>Apologies in advance if:

there's nothing here of use, there are any errors or incorrect statements
- I've simply put this here for my own amusement.</p>
<p>This post is hopefully a tidied up version of:
<font>Step by Step Instructions Here</font></p>
<p>************************
First off I'd like to point out these two sticky post by Saenger</p>
<p>If you need help, look first in this thread. Lot's of answers here!</p>
<p>Need help? Go here!</p>
<p>************************
For getting BOINC up and running go to Paul D Buck's: Step-by-Step Instructions



Also have a look at


<font>BOINCWiki</font>, <font>FAQ BOINC</font>and <font>BOINC Documentation</font>



Below are hopefully some of the more useful threads if you already have a Seti
Classic account:</p>
<p>

SETI@home's transition to BOINC




Credits ... How do i get credit for the old stuff</p>
<p> The credit isn't transferred over
because they are calculated differently, but the Classic scores are
kept and displayed.





How is Credit calculated?





Questions about Credit





About the Seti Classic Credit system






Missing classic account</p>
<p> You do get to keep
your old classic scores, have a look at the link below:





What about my credit from the original SETI@Home program?



To see an example of how my
SetiClassic scores are displayed, look

here.



You'll need to activate your account
with SetiBoinc, go to

Activate Account.



If you don't have a Classic
account you need to go to

Create Account






Can't Remember Seti Classic Password?</p>
<p> Go here to obtain Seti Classic
Password:

Seti@Home User Account Area



Please also
note the If you don't know your password,

click here option </p>
<blockquote>
Dr. Anderson is the next step if
people cannot do this either. He is the only person that can reset the
password if the person has lost both the password and the email account they
signed up with.

His email address is: Dr. David P.
Anderson Director and architect. Contact him at davea at ssl.berkeley.edu</blockquote>
<p> Thanks

mikey for pointing this out



Then go here to:

Activate Seti BOINC Account

</p>
<p>Apologies in advance for any repetition in links..

</p>
<p>**************************
If you're not getting any of the answers you're looking for, try

<font>Message Search</font> which searches all Seti forums including this one.



And whilst you're about it, it couldn't do any harm to do a search of the

<font>BOINCWiki</font>, <font>FAQ BOINC</font>
and
<font>BOINC Documentation</font></p>
I would like to point out that a lot of

<font>newbie</font> question have
already been asked and answered,or at least discussed.

The problem is that every other person asks the same question in a slightly
different way and so may not easily recognise that a solution or solutions
provided could actually apply to them also.



So what to do?

Learn how to do a search: the more you do it the easier it gets and the more
proficient you become.

You will have little choice but to wade through loads of links that (at first
glance) don't seem to be related to your query, but as you become better at
refining your search you will get fewer and more appropriate links.



Learning something new is always difficult at first, but after a while you wont
believe that you didn't get it first time. But you have to make
the initial effort if you want to understand/learn.

</p>
<p>************************
Here is another useful link if you seem to be having problems connecting:



BOINC Project
Status Page</p>
<p>Thanks to
cjmweb_uk</p>
<p>And I'd like to draw your attention to the message "This page was last modified
on...." just in case it is 'stuck' and has not been updated recently. </p>
<p>************************
If you're looking for a way to see your STATS, compare them to other
peoples, etc, then go to
BOINCstats.com

Just enter your username in the Search user or team box.





There are other places that do them aswell, find them with

Google </p>
<p>************************

If you want to set up the screen saver, go here:

Screen Saver Set-Up </p>
<p>As far as I am aware, the Seti screen saver app downloads
automatically once Boinc is connected to the Seti Web site, you don't have to
download it separately. Though the screen saver doesn't work if you install/run
Boinc as a service.



If you want to check the screen saver go to the work tab in Boinc
Manager, click on the project that is currently running, and then click
on the show graphics button.</p>
<p>Some potential reasons as to why you may not get any Graphics/ScreenSaver to
work, see

Graphics </p>
<p> Some of the projects don't yet
have graphics.</p>
<p> The graphics do not work with the
optimized apps/clients. If you need to have them, you will have to revert to one
of the recommended BOINC versions with the regular 4.09 science app </p>
<p>************************</p>
<p>

<font>k<font>i</font>nh<font>u</font>ll</font><font>
<font>:</font><font>)</font>
</font></p>