Trying to get BOINC to work on all profiles

[bluestrobe]

So I installed BOINC on my webserver under the administrative profile. To help secure the rig I created another profile and logged into it. Eveything (vnc, anti-virus, ect. ) works on the new profile except the BOINC program. Before I do anything I wanted to ask how do I get BOINC to work on the new profile? Thanks!

 

[amdxborg]

Have you tried installing it as a service? That's what I do on all my pcs. Just select service install during installation.

 

[Rattledagger]

BOINC access-rights in theory depends on install-type, but due to a bug it's in practice only accessible for installing user/admins. In v5.4.xx there the bug is fixed, Shared installation also works for non-admins, while Single/Service still only works for installing user/admins.

The recommended is to install as Service, this way BOINC will continue to run regardless of someone logged-in or not.

 

[bluestrobe]

I reinstalled it as a Shared user and went to my other user profile. Its gives me the error that the folder cannot be accessed so the program will not start. Any way to open access to that folder in a standard user profile? I prefer to keep the BOINC manager to keep track of whats going on but will lose it if its really needed.

 

[Rattledagger]

Give "Users" full access to BOINC-directory and sub-directories, or user-name if you only wants to give one user access...

Anyway, as already mentioned, the shared-install-bug is fixed in v5.4.xx that is expected released "soon"...

 

[bluestrobe]

Hate to sound dumb, but how does one give access to certain folders for user profiles. If I can get that then there is no problem. My problem is the OS is not letting the folder open on restricted accounts so its not really a BOINC issue from what I could see.

 

[Rattledagger]

Login as Admin-user to change access-rights.

To set access-rights, the probably easiest is to open a cmd (command-line) and type:

cd \program files (if default install-location)
cacls boinc /e /t /g users:f


If instead of giving all normal users access-rights, but example you've got an account "Blue" you want to give access-rights, use

cacls boinc /e /t /g blue:f

 

[bluestrobe]

Originally posted by: Rattledagger
Login as Admin-user to change access-rights.

To set access-rights, the probably easiest is to open a cmd (command-line) and type:

cd \program files (if default install-location)
cacls boinc /e /t /g users:f


If instead of giving all normal users access-rights, but example you've got an account "Blue" you want to give access-rights, use

cacls boinc /e /t /g blue:f

Doh, found out how to do it, can't believe I forgot the folder properties method. Anyways, got BOINC manager to load, but now it can't find a client. Sounds like I ran into that bug after all.