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jayne

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Message 92292 - Posted: 24 Jul 2019, 17:22:45 UTC

Hi, am new and want to run Seti but it wont connect, and says that its probably a firewall issue, i am in UK and have sky, i can get on the sky hub page but have no idea how to allow Seti or Boinc through the firewall, any help on this would be appreciated.
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Message 92295 - Posted: 24 Jul 2019, 20:37:06 UTC - in response to Message 92292.  

If the message is "Cannot connect to client" or "Cannot connect to localhost" on BOINC Manager, first check that the BOINC client is actually running. Assuming Windows, check in Task Manager Processes, that boinc.exe is running. If it isn't, (re)open BOINC Manager->Options->More options->check "Run the client?"->Save.

After that exit BOINC Manager and restart it.
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