Hi,
A team mate of mine has the following problem:
Boinc is installed on a Win XP machine in "share-user" mode.
When he starts BOINC (clicking on the desktop icon), the manager is started but boinc.exe is not started:
boinc.exe doesn't appear in the task-manager.
So the manager just freezes and he has to kill the manager app in the task manager.

To make boinc work, he starts boinc.exe with a command-line (in Windows !!) and then he starts the boincmanager, and it's working.

Any idea ?
(he tried to install/uninstall BOINC at least 15 times to no avail)

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I would guess a permissions or firewall problem. Firewall problem seems more likely since I would expect the manager not to run if it was a permission problem.

boinc.exe needs internet access on ports 43 and 80, local access on ports 1043 and 31416.
boincmgr.exe needs local access on ports 1043 and 31416.

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BOINC WIKI

BOINCing since 2002/12/8

Well, thanks for replying.
But how do you explain that boinc.exe is not started (no boinc.exe in task manager)?
That's the whole point.
This user have to start Boinc.exe in command-line, or else there is no boinc.exe running.
We've already checked port problem (ping on 127.0.0.1, firewall, etc) but it doesn't seem to be the source of the problem: when started in command-line, everything works fine.

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If the ports the manager needs to communicate with boinc.exe are not available it can prevent the manager from starting the deamon.

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BOINC WIKI

BOINCing since 2002/12/8