How to hide seti@home?

[LucJoe]

I'm using the cli version with seti driver. I was wondering if there was any way for me to completely hide this being running? I mean not just put it into the systray. I want to do this because people keep getting on my computer and closing everything in the systray thinking that it will make it run faster or something. Anyone know what to do?

Thanks

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Running it as a service should solve that. I may be wrong, though.

 

[LucJoe]

Cool!

umm... can anyone tell me how to do that?

 

[Sukhoi]

Check my help thead (sig) for IsOs Win9x/Me and WinNT/2K SETI Driver service installs. Make sure you uninstall your current install though, and read the directions for the service install.

Edit: I beat ShotgunSteve!

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Sorry. You can find the Service Installs in Sukhoi's SETI@Home Help Thread.

 

[ColinP]

You can also use SetiHide although this will run as an app not a service. But you can rename seti to something else and rename SetiHide too...

So all people would see (if they looked in task manager) was something like sh.exe which would be running something like idle.exe......



Col

 

[LucJoe]

Ok, I finally got around to trying this, and I can't figure IsOs service thing out to save my life.

Here's the readme:



<< SETI Driver (SETIDr.exe) is controlled by a configuration file (SETIDr.cfg).

You need to edit this file if you wish to change the program priority,
and proxy settings. The configuration file is set to run SETI in normal
priority and uses Orangekid's SETI proxy.

Before you run Install.bat, read the rest of this file!

To set SETI driver as service, run install.bat, replace the user_info.sah with your own. Either restart the computer or go to the SERVICES, found in the Administrative tool, locate SETIDr and start the service.

Remember to replace the contents of subdirectory 1 with you own SETI workunit info.

Install.bat will setup a subdirectory inside System32 named sah containing 3 subdirectories for workunits cache. Subdirectory 1 contains workunit downloaded for my test with my user information. The presence of this information allow SETI Driver to start as service.

If you wish, you can delete the numbered subdirectories. You need to run SETIDr.exe, setup your preferences and user_info then save config.
Reboot.
>>




Ok, I'm running XP Pro, first of all, will this 2k install work with xp? Also, what does any of this mean? Do I need to transfer some files over from my old install of the CLI version? What is that user_info.sah file that he is talking about?


Sorry for all the questions, I hope i can get this working.

 

[Wiz]

What is that user_info.sah file that he is talking about?

That is one of the files in your seti folder. It contains your "User Info". Stuff like your seti email address is in there. If you add that file to an install of the seti client then it does not ask you for your seti@home account info when it starts up.

 

[LucJoe]

Ok, so this service install assumes that you already have seti installed on your machine?

 

[LucJoe]

<< Remember to replace the contents of subdirectory 1 with you own SETI workunit info. >>



And what does this mean?

 

[Wiz]

I went a different route myself so I can't help you too much with your specific question.
Here is what I did:

Installed FireDaemon

Set Firedaemon to start Seti Spy on my own machine, seti spy in turn starts seti driver which starts the seti Cli.

On a different machine I have it set to start seti driver, no seti spy. This allows the system to cache WU's and still hide the processes from the user of that machine (unless they look at task manager, but that user isn't sophistacated enoung to look past the task bar).

Here is the web site for Firedaemon: http://www.firedaemon.com/

I see there that they say the current version does not work on XP but the next one is due to be released soon and it will work with XP.
I don't know of a prog like this that does work with XP right now, maybe you can find one. Otherwise you can email them support@firedaemon.com and ask to get it early for testing.

 

[Sukhoi]

<< Ok, so this service install assumes that you already have seti installed on your machine? >>



There is a single user_info.sah for each SETI account. So you just need to take a user_info.sah from any SETI client you're running, and use it in the service install. If you need to, just DL the CLI, run it, login, copy the user_info.sah out, and delete the files.

 

[LucJoe]

Ok, I did all that and I think its running now, but its hard to tell if i configured it correctly. I used setispy to see its progress and it look like its processing the WU's right, but how do I know if its set up right for my account? Or is there a way to make sure its going through orangekid's proxy?

 

[Baldy18]

Here is a link to the user stats on OK's proxy. You are listed as submitting 8WUs through the proxy yesterday.

Also in your personal history you are listed as submitting 7WUs so far today.