When I try to attach to the seti project using an existing account it returns with :Failed to Attach to project" and the messages from server is blank.

Under the Messages area in Boinc Manager it says:
10/11/2005 3:50:35 p.m.||Fetching config info from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
10/11/2005 3:50:42 p.m.||Missing account key
10/11/2005 3:50:58 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Master file download succeeded
10/11/2005 3:50:58 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
10/11/2005 3:50:58 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Reason: Requested by user
10/11/2005 3:50:58 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work
10/11/2005 3:51:35 p.m.||Attempting to communicate with [setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu] timed out
10/11/2005 3:51:36 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of -182
10/11/2005 3:51:36 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded
10/11/2005 3:51:36 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL.
10/11/2005 3:51:36 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Resetting project
10/11/2005 3:51:36 p.m.||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
10/11/2005 3:51:36 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project


I'm sure it's something simple, your help would be appreciated.

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This for 5.2.x CCs
When you activated your account, you got an account key, but did you create a password for your account. If you didn't, you can do it when you go to "Your account" with "Change password".
With that password, not the password of Classic, and your e-mail address it should work.

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Have tried changing my password again and now get:

11/11/2005 6:52:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Resetting project
11/11/2005 6:52:13 p.m.||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
11/11/2005 6:52:13 p.m.||request_reschedule_cpus: project op
11/11/2005 6:52:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
11/11/2005 6:52:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Reason: Requested by user
11/11/2005 6:52:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work
11/11/2005 6:55:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500
11/11/2005 6:55:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded
11/11/2005 6:55:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL.
11/11/2005 6:55:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Resetting project
11/11/2005 6:55:06 p.m.||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
11/11/2005 6:55:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project


Any other ideas? :)

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Any other ideas? :)

Hmm, looks like an intermittent SAH problem...

11/11/2005 12:02:38|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
11/11/2005 12:02:38|SETI@home|Reason: To fetch work
11/11/2005 12:02:38|SETI@home|Requesting 1102 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
11/11/2005 12:03:03|SETI@home|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500
11/11/2005 12:03:03|SETI@home|No schedulers responded
11/11/2005 12:03:08|SETI@home|Deferring communication with project for 5 minutes and 17 seconds

Just let it run and it should sort itself out.

11/11/2005 12:18:35|SETI@home|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
11/11/2005 12:18:35|SETI@home|Reason: To fetch work
11/11/2005 12:18:35|SETI@home|Requesting 3362 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
11/11/2005 12:18:45|SETI@home|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi succeeded

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ralic's law of forums: Irrespective of any prior research done, you will find the solution to your question shortly after posting it to a public Internet forum, resulting in readers concluding that you have done no research on the matter whatsoever.

Could just been that the server is overloaded or the net is having problems, best to get it a few hours or a day to sort its self out.....All else fails, reboot, you never know....

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Now I get?:

23/11/2005 2:44:36 p.m.||Fetching config info from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
23/11/2005 2:44:43 p.m.||Missing account key
23/11/2005 2:46:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Master file download succeeded
23/11/2005 2:46:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Sending scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi
23/11/2005 2:46:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Reason: Requested by user
23/11/2005 2:46:13 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Scheduler request to http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Couldn't connect to URL http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.Please check URL.
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Resetting project
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.||request_reschedule_cpus: exit_tasks
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|Detaching from project

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Now I get?:
<snip>
http://setiboinc.ssl.berkeley.edu/sah_cgi/cgi failed with a return value of 500
23/11/2005 2:49:06 p.m.|http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/|No schedulers responded
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The return value of 500 indicates an internal server error on the serving HTTP server (the scheduler).
If you have a look at the Technical News over at SAH, you'll see that they were experiencing some technical difficulties with the web server & database due to an influx of new users. The problem has since been resolved.

There's a reasonably good chance that this is the reason for the error that you received.
At the moment, everything looks to be OK, so you should try again.

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Do you pick the bad days to attach on purpose? ;-)
Seriously, give it another try and post your success or failure either over at SAH or back here.
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ralic's law of forums: Irrespective of any prior research done, you will find the solution to your question shortly after posting it to a public Internet forum, resulting in readers concluding that you have done no research on the matter whatsoever.

Hello to everyone.
Actually trying to run 5.2.6 on various machines (about 45 serveurs should do as they now run an older application of seti e.g.)
Facts:
going directly thru a firewall works fine, but thru proxies NEVER!!
Environment: W2k3 server (no SP1) US, WSUS updates up-to-date, using ISA2004 proxies configured to allow clear-text authentication. Works fine in a browser (whatever it is), NEVER from BOINC manager.
Sympthoms: prompts for proxy info, ok, asks for boinc credentials, then msg 500 in the log, and GUI says "failed to attach", message from server "".
I refuse to open the firewall for direct connection from all servers within the infrastructure, and so will not be able to provide computation as from dec 15th (500 seti units a dy, for example).

Any suggestion, beside the classic pls check log/pwd (I do manage), reboot( of course, this is MS-based), any patch??

Thank you for the research

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