I have downloaded Boinc and installed it.
Had some difficulty in finding all the pieces.
I located my email address and old password.
I also found my account on Boinc and have activated it.
I have been emailed the account key and Project url.
I have tried several time now following the attach to Project window and copied the details from the emial into the correct boxes, but every time It tells me
Failed to attach to project.
I have opened my account in Boinc and checked that everything is ok. But it still refuses to all me in.
What am I doing wrong.

A very frustrated person at this time.
Steve Bishop

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I see 14K plus classic credits in your boinc account, that means you've activated AN account with a great deal of classic credit. Congratulations.

now on to your issue.

Boinc has found issues affecting small parts of the whole group that have moved over so far. We've added more than 20K users in 4 days. Rom Walton (developer) has been churning out fixes as they can be nailed down. THe current boinc Version is 5.2.13. If you have a previous WINDOWS version, you can click here and immediately download 5.2.13. Just install it right over the old, no need to uninstall. Then SHUT DOWN, (NOT restart) your puter,

then open boinc, does it say "connected to localhost" on the very bottom of the window (right hand side)?

If so try to attach, via Projects, attach to projects. If not then write back.

tony

If you have a firewall (software) the first time boinc starts after install you should see TWO prompts for access, one for boinc.exe and one for Boincmgr.exe

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I see 14K plus classic credits in your boinc account, that means you've activated AN account with a great deal of classic credit. Congratulations.

now on to your issue.

Boinc has found issues affecting small parts of the whole group that have moved over so far. We've added more than 20K users in 4 days. Rom Walton (developer) has been churning out fixes as they can be nailed down. THe current boinc Version is 5.2.13. If you have a previous WINDOWS version, you can click here and immediately download 5.2.13. Just install it right over the old, no need to uninstall. Then SHUT DOWN, (NOT restart) your puter,

then open boinc, does it say "connected to localhost" on the very bottom of the window (right hand side)?

If so try to attach, via Projects, attach to projects. If not then write back.

tony

If you have a firewall (software) the first time boinc starts after install you should see TWO prompts for access, one for boinc.exe and one for Boincmgr.exe

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I see you trying to type. If you just click on "answer this question" you'll have a fresh box with which to type in.

OOps didnt realise I had to delete your stuff Firts.
Anyway got here.
Thanks for the help, downloaded new version ok
Switched off and switched on again.
When boinc startes it goes to localhost and asks me for my data
I again copied it from the email I was sent with the exception of my email address which I made sure was correct.
Sorry but it still will not let me in.
Ive been checking the messages and I can see where It tries to connect.
Below is the part of the mesage I think you need to see

30/11/2005 00:14:35|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Master file download succeeded

30/11/2005 00:14:35|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi

30/11/2005 00:14:35|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Reason: Requested by user
30/11/2005 00:14:35|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work

the next items are listed in red
30/11/2005 00:14:37|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500

30/11/2005 00:14:37|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded
30/11/2005 00:14:37|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL.

the next items now change back to black
30/11/2005 00:14:37|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Resetting project
30/11/2005 00:14:37||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
30/11/2005 00:14:37|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project

If this is the problem do I just keep trying,
The last time I kept doing this I found that my account had registered each attempt as a seperate computer and had to merge them....
Steve Bishop

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1828195 1 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 30 Nov 2005 0:14:35 UTC

1827955 2 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 29 Nov 2005 23:41:52 UTC

1827855 3 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 29 Nov 2005 23:30:13 UTC

1827788 4 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 29 Nov 2005 23:23:23 UTC

these are the puters I see under your account, I assume they are identical(i.e the same one). yes?

Yes
It appears it make a new list every time i try to log in

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Yes
It appears it make a new list every time i try to log in

Open the boinc manager, click on "Work Tab" do you see any work listed?

Nothing listed in the work tab

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how about the transfers tab?

Ive checked all the tabs
They are all blank except the message tab

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When you tried at 7:14 PM eastern tonite it assigned a wu to you, is that the time you last tried or was there a later one?

1828195 1 0.00 0.00 AuthenticAMD
AMD Athlon(tm) Microsoft Windows XP
Professional Edition, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00) 30 Nov 2005 0:14:35 UTC east coast is UTC -5hours

The time on the message tab says 00.14.37
for me 14 mins past midnight so 7.14 your time is correct, havnt tried since

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man you're up late.

Anyway, click start, all programs, accessories, then select Command prompt, type in:

tracert 66.28.250.125
hit enter
does it complete successfully?

then type in:
tracert 128.32.18.173
hit enter
does it complete successfully?

Yes both completed
The first had 13 lines
the second had 18 lines
And both had the Trace complete at the end

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Damn, I think you just joined a group of users (now totalling 5, of the 20K plus newly attached users) that can't attach and have the same symptoms. Noone has figured this one out yet, maybe you can.

Boinc manager needs ports 80, 1043, 31416 open for it's use. Some programs reserve a port and that messes things up. Also, when passwords are transmitted, boinc uses a SSL (secure socket layer) HTTPS transmission (versus the normal HTTP when normal coms are needed. SSL needs port 443 available.

Opening a Command Prompt box
type in
netstat -ao

hit enter.

see if some other programs is reserving any of those ports stopping you.

brb

Tony,
Must go now Ill be back tomorrow evening, Got to get up at 5.55 shift work..
thanks

Steve

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i see ports listed Tcp and UDP after my computer name Undr local address
and under foreign address
Whats PID

Under local address
includes 80, 443, 1043, cant see 31416

Under Foreign address

includes 1043,

do you want me to post what My command promt box came up with

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you can read the following threads and see if you can find something to help you. You seem to have the same issue as the users in these threads.

Help me Please......

Boinc connection error 182

Error 500

Help with "attach to project"

especially read the solution found in the last post of the last one.

tony

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This Thread is in the NC forums, you can't post here without credit, but I believe you can read it. I started this thread for this problem.

Configuring a PORT problem, or firewall check it out, many people are guessing at a cure for you and the other 4.

tony

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