Help with KDFold

[beatle]

I did a quick search on kdfold and only came up with one hit in the archives. The link for the instructions is now dead. Is there a good writeup somewhere that I could take a look at? The program comes with no documentation. The site has little information about setup, and what is there has dead links for some images as well as white text on a white background...

 

[ProviaFan]

I'll try to summarize, but it will be quick because I'm tired, so if you need more instructions, say so, and I'll try to get you some tomorrow afternoon.

Anyway, once you have installed KDFold and run it, click on its system tray icon to restore it (if necessary), then go to the Client Settings tab. Press the "Locked" button to change it to "Set" then select "Folding 2 & 3". Go to "Choose File" and click on the little tree structure button next to the File Path box, and then navigate to your x:\wherever\Folding@Home\work\ folder and double click on any file therein. Under "Machine Name" you can type in some information about the system that you just entered. It is not strictly necessary, but recommended if you plan to monitor more than one system via the network with KDFold (if you want to do that, LMK, and I'll provide more detailed instructions later). Anyway, once all that stuff is set up, press "Set" again to make it change to "Locked" and then go back to the "Main View". You should see some information now about your F@H client. That tab can be difficult to understand at times, so if you need help, just speak up. Hope this helps some. 🙂

 

[beatle]

Thanks, this helps. I believe I have it set up correctly. I was a little confused on which file to select for each client I'm running (F@H and FAD) on each machine. Is there another way to get stats other than from mapping drives and pointing to the files that way? I thought I remember seeing a need to set permissions a certain way, but I don't quite remember.

 

[ProviaFan]

To view the stats of networked computers, you need to share the folder of the client that you wish to monitor. To get to it without mapping a network drive, just enter a network path, as in \\computername\sharedfolder\work\ (where computername is the network name of the computer that runs the client that you wish to monitor, and sharedfolder is the name that you gave to the shared folder). The folder can be shared as read-only, but Everyone needs that permission, so KDFold can log in anonymously to monitor the stats (otherwise the network clients won't be monitored when open KDFold after you've restarted, and you'll have to go back to Client Settings > Choose File, click Locked, choose the path again so it will prompt you to get the proper username and password, and then click Set).

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: jliechty
To view the stats of networked computers, you need to share the folder of the client that you wish to monitor. To get to it without mapping a network drive, just enter a network path, as in \\computername\sharedfolder\work\ (where computername is the network name of the computer that runs the client that you wish to monitor, and sharedfolder is the name that you gave to the shared folder). The folder can be shared as read-only, but Everyone needs that permission, so KDFold can log in anonymously to monitor the stats (otherwise the network clients won't be monitored when open KDFold after you've restarted, and you'll have to go back to Client Settings > Choose File, click Locked, choose the path again so it will prompt you to get the proper username and password, and then click Set).

Or if you have admin rights on the network you can get around having to share folder by using the administrator share (\\computername\c$\program files\workingfolder). 🙂

 

[beatle]

This thing gets pretty cool once you know how to work it. 🙂

Now monitoring each CPU of the dual 550, my tbird 1266 and the tbredb @ 2200 I'm currently on.

 

[ProviaFan]

Awesome! Glad you got it working fine and are happy with it. 😀