Message boards : BOINC client : Remote control won't work
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![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Jun 07 Posts: 4 |
I just changed one of my crunchers from xp to vista 64bit and installed 6.2.6 on it. Now I don't get my other PC to remote controlling the vista64 with the command lines. Password is ok and remote_hosts as well. I don't receive errors on the controlling PC but the vista64 still won't follow its orders. Since I was not sure were to have the gui_auth and the remote_host I doubled them in the data and the program folder. Any suggestions? |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15585 ![]() |
Check that the Guest account is on in Windows. I don't quite follow it either, but for me enabling the Guest account on the controlling computer fixed the problems I had with remote controlling the other computer (Xp and 2k). |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 5 Jun 07 Posts: 4 |
Ok I created a guest account but it didn't really help. Now I only get a can't connect error. But through my network I have no problems connecting to the vista64 PC. |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 147 |
You need to poke only two holes in the VISTA firewall. BOINC.exe needs to act as a server. Port 31416 needs to be opened. Both of these can be restricted to access from the hosts that are being used to control BOINC. ![]() BOINC WIKI |
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