Been trying to add other projects, but can't get my BOINC manager to appear. Might be some distantly-related Ubuntu issue I'm not techie enough to understand. I have heard that one can remote-access BOINC on another computer. Is that true?

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What distro are you running?
How are you trying to open/launch program?

Don't know what "distro" means. I'm not computer savvy, so please use layman's terms whenever possible. I only use Ubuntu because my techie friend didn't have any of the Windows OS discs when I needed to reload one after accidentally downloading a virus.

I tried to open the BOINC manager by going into the BOINC folder and clicking on the boincmgr icon.

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Please keep in mind that I am not computer literate. Please make all answers the best layman's terms you have.

Don't know what "distro" means. I'm not computer savvy, so please use layman's terms whenever possible. I only use Ubuntu because my techie friend didn't have any of the Windows OS discs when I needed to reload one after accidentally downloading a virus.

I tried to open the BOINC manager by going into the BOINC folder and clicking on the boincmgr icon.

What they mean by "distro" is what type of OS are you running. IE: Window$, Linux, or an Apple.

This will help them to be able to be more specific in their answer..

My issue is my BOINC client starts during boot and, I am unable to find a checkbox to untick or, any other setting that I can change to disable this.

Needless to say the sneaky fu***** at Berkley put a string in the code somewhere and left out any way to disable it.

Unless I am missing something.. can someone help me with this?

I'm on Linux Mint 17 mate.

The OS I want to use as the remote is Windows XP.

I've clicked on that manager icon lots of times, and the manager won't appear.

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Are you asking what Ubuntu distro I'm using? How do I find that out?

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OK, if I can't remote-operate from another computer, how do I make the BOINC manager appear, or how do I attach to another project without it?

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I have heard that one can remote-access BOINC on another computer. Is that true?

Try BoincTasks (the site seems offline just now):
http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/boinc_tasks/
http://www.efmer.com/b/eFMer_programs

But you will have to do 2 things on the Linux machine (in your BOINC data directory):
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Controlling_BOINC_remotely

- Copy the password from gui_rpc_auth.cfg (and put (on Windows machine) in BoincTasks - Computers tab - Password column)
- Create remote_hosts.cfg (in your BOINC data directory on the Linux machine)
with content similar to this (depend on the address range in your local network):

The-Windows-hostname

192.168.1.1
192.168.1.2
192.168.1.3
192.168.1.4
192.168.1.5
192.168.1.6
192.168.1.7
192.168.1.8
192.168.1.9

192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
192.168.0.4
192.168.0.5
192.168.0.6
192.168.0.7
192.168.0.8
192.168.0.9

192.168.0.100
192.168.0.101
192.168.0.102
192.168.0.103
192.168.0.104
192.168.0.105
192.168.0.106
192.168.0.107
192.168.0.108
192.168.0.109

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Thank you

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