F@H Client won't work on my notebook...

[Alex]

i currently run F@H on both my home and work computers and i installed it on my notebook and it worked fine for a while... work and home are pretty much on 24/7, i reboot them once in a while though. each is connected to its own respective network with firewalls, etc and both work 'out of the box'.

the notebook on the other hand has a wireless connection and it gets turned off a lot and sometimes i take it places with no wifi etc..

anyway it works for a while but then stalls at "attempting to get work packet"
reinstalling usually works but lately that hasn't worked either...

i tried creating all sorts of firewall rules for it and still no good... i'm at a loss...

anyone have any suggestions?

 

[GLeeM]

There is a question during configuration to use or not use IE connection settings.

Try changing it.

The client uses http and ports 80 & 8080.

 

[Alyx]

Setting it to use IE Settings does not work with internet explorer 7 from what I remember.

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: Google Search
Folding@home Sneakernetting Guide
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Sneakernetting is the process of download a work unit on one machine and then transfering it to another machine. This is handy if a machine does not have a connection to the internet, or for moving large units off slow machines.

For the purposes of this guide I will label our two machines as Machine A and Machine B

Machine A - Has internet.
Machine B - Has no Internet

1. Assuming Machine A is already folding, create another folder for downloading your units that you wish to sneakernet. Copy the client to this folder and set it up however you like. Make sure you use the -local flag on both your clients at this point.

2. Copy everything on machine A's sneakernet folder to machine B.

3. Now you must copy the registry key from machine A to machine B. Click Start->Run->"regedit" and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PandeGroup

4. Right click "PandeGroup" and click export. Call it fold.reg

5. Now copy the key you exported from Machine A to Machine B

6. On machine B, double-click fold.reg and click Yes to add the key to your registry.

7. To download work, on Machine A run the client (with the -local flag and any others you wish. The client will download a core and a work unit. Once downloaded, it will start folding. Stop this process by pressing CTRL-C.

8. Now you must transfer your work to Machine B. There are several files which you will now need to copy (listed below).

FahCore_xx.exe -> The core. xx represents the core needed (ie 78, 7a etc)
\WORK -> The entire work folder. This is the work unit.
queue.dat -> The queue.dat file contains the deadline information as well other important information.

9. Transfer these files to machine B and start the client. The client will now fold the unit.

10. Once the unit is complete, you must copy the \work and queue.dat folder and file back to Machine A. It is not necessary to copy the core back to machine A. Make sure you transfer the work to the sneakernet client on Machine A and not Machine A's own folding client

11. To send the results, run the sneakernet client on Machine A with the -send all flag. The unit will now upload and a new unit will download another. Repeat this process. Make sure that if the unit downloads a new core that you move the core to Machine B as well.

It's important that you keep the files in their correct folders. This guide assumes two machines, one with connectivity and one without, however you can sneakernet to as many machines as you like. Its not necessary for the sneakernet clients on Machine A to have different Machine ID's either.

Could try that too.

 

[Alex]

thx for the replies... Alyx thx that's pretty detailed... don't have the time to try that right now but I'll definitely keep this in mind!

i've tried tinkering with the connection settings and it doesn't work... it just feels kinda random... like yesterday i uninstalled, cleaned the registry and reinstalled and it worked fine. i left it on overnight and there was a power-cut but when i booted up this morning it resumed working just fine. i think it has something to do with losing connection to the internet but i don't really wanna bother it until it's done the current WU which will take until monday...

 

[GLeeM]

Which client are you using?

 

[Alex]

Originally posted by: GLeeM
Which client are you using?

i'm using the Windows 2000/XP/Vista Graphical client 5.03 from the stanford folding site

it's currently working right now and it should be done the current WU by tomorrow... that's when it usually goes haywire and can't get a new WU...