1) Message boards : Number crunching : why do I get 0 credit when I claimed 40? (Message 41002) Posted 28 Oct 2004 by e28 Post: > Hi Rachel > Its looks like on one, the first appearing, according to the result file it > was not valid. While the work unit file claimed success. And it seems funny > that credit would be given to two hosts??? > I have the same issue. From what I've read on these boards, all three claimed credits have to be close in order to be granted any credit at all. One of my pc's tends to claim very low credit (~22). In some cases, when it claims 19 I get 0.00 granted - while the other two are granted the least claimed between them. However, then you get some like this I found (http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/results.php?hostid=77902) who claim ~14 every time, but get granted the next highest claim. However, there was one instance where I claimed 19.54, and the other two were 51.52 and 33.10 (all successful, in that order received by the server). I and the 51.52 were both granted 19.54, and the 33.10 was granted 0.00. Strange. I looked at the owner's manual (http://homepage.mac.com/pauldbuck/index.html) and it really didn't specify the current policy for granting credits for SETI. It talked about using the least or median of claimed credits, but didn't specify which one is being used for SETI, and more importantly the issue of throwing out credits when results are not close together.

2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problem with multiple accounts in XP SP2 (Message 28701) Posted 21 Sep 2004 by e28 Post: > You must install it as a service if you want it to run with different users > like that. > > > I have the same problem since upgrading to boinc 4.09. After booting up and logging on (even as admin), boinc shows up in tray and then disappears. If I then try to run it manually, I get the pop-up error about failing to cleanup Windows Sockets and then see the gui and the icon in the tray. However, the times on the messages show it's been running since start up - and there are no errors in the messages themselves. So, boinc seems to have been running just fine in the background. I am running XP sp1 in a multi-user environment and not running boinc as a service.

3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problems running under XP Limited Account type (Message 8114) Posted 15 Jul 2004 by e28 Post: > You might as well grant full-access to the limited users group for the > directory you installed BOINC in. I tried installing BOINC in other directories (even the supposedly access-friendly "shared documents" directory) with no avail. Granting full access to the "limited users group" (aka Users group) is the only thing that worked. However, it was difficult to figure out as I had to stumble upon the "Use simple file sharing" option in the folder view options panel and turn it off. I was then able to actually give the group full rights to the folder and it now works like a charm. Thanks for the help!

4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problems running under XP Limited Account type (Message 7547) Posted 14 Jul 2004 by e28 Post: I would like to run boinc under limited account type in XP Pro. I installed and ran it successfully under administrator account, but when trying to run it under the limited account, I get the following error: BOINC GUI Diagnostic Error: BOINC Runtime Exception - 108 File Operation Failure Failed to reopen stderr for diagnostics redirection (overwrite) Filname: '\Boincsrc\Man\boinc\lib\diagnostics.C' Line: '82' I can get it to work doing a "Run As..." an adminstrator within the limited account, but I would rather have it just start up automatically after logging in without having to type in the credentials. If anyone has been able to do this, I would like to know how. If this won't work, would the command-line client be any different?

5) Questions and Answers : Windows : TIP: Windows XP: automatic logon (Message 6216) Posted 10 Jul 2004 by e28 Post: An easier method is to download and install TweakUI (Microsoft XP PowerTools) from microsoft.com: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=afa135c8-8b63-4c03-8986-d7f45a6aa1fa&displaylang=en One of the features you can set is Auto Login.

 
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