Question about folding CLI

[Superman9534]

Ok I have folding running on both my computers (Athlon 2100+ and PowerMac G4). When I go back to school in the fall I want to put it on as many of the schools 1.8ghz P4s as I can. Now I need to set it up to run with my username in the background (as a process, not a window open). These computers run windows 2000.

Also, i'd like to make it somwhat automatic, because if the library staff sees me messing with a Command Prompt they will get suspicious. So is there a way I can get all the settings set up on my computer (username etc) and then just transfer it all with my USB Flash Disk.

I hope it doesn't require admin access to make a startup process, although I can get the admin password I dont want to get suspended :-\. Thanks.

BTW that would be 30+ computers for the team all on P4s that do nothin but Internet Explorer all day and are on 24/7

 

[Confused]

Make sure you get written permission before you start putting it on the systems at school, otherwise you may get into trouble (a lot more than just suspended).

Once you have done this, then you will be able to do one of two options. Firstly, install it as a service, using something like FireDaemon, or do it the manual way by writing a script, or setting it up as a Scheduled Task to run at System Startup.

Of course some others will be able to help you set up the CLI


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[Superman9534]

yes I would get permisson. I'm in about every computer class offered so I have connections. The computer teachers have more power over the computers then the Library staff that think everything is bad.

I forgot about FireDaemon, that could work. I was thinking more along the lines of a script. I know VB but thats about it.

 

[ProviaFan]

That sounds great, but make sure you have explicit written permission to install any DC client on computers that are not your own. A member of the TeAm (David McOwen, crunching for the RC5-64 project) got sued for a ton of money and was going to get hundreds of years in prison (fortunately neither of those happened, but it was close enough to be scarey) even though he had permission to install RC5-64 on some computers that he was in control of at his workplace (and to think there are idiot(s) around here that think he deserved it makes me sick - I speak of one particular one in the P&N forum, but not by name).

Anyway, to do anything worthwhile (unless the computer security is totally lax and regular users are in the Admin group) you will need Administrator privileges. If you can't get that, you can't do what you want to do. Anyway, to install F@H as a service without using FireDaemon, please try the Folding@Home Service Installer. There is a slight problem though (quoting from a post on the Folding Community Forum):

I have noticed that when doing a fresh install, that it does not create the config file properly as far as team # and username.

What I have found is that after installing fresh, it leaves the username as _ and the team # as 0. I have to stop the service and run the client with the -config switch to config it, then close the client restart the service and everything is fine.

Only problem I have seen so far.