I am an avid home user of BOINC and SETI and am trying to get it running on my work computer. I have read through some of the other threads and tried to figure it out but I still cannot connect. I have no control over what the XP SP2 Security Center allows and disallows, I have local admin rights but still cannot see the security center to allow bonic.exe and bonicmgr.exe access. Our network does use a SOCKS proxy and I have input all the information into BOINC but still cannot connect. I have tried basically everything I know, any help out there? Also, I have no access to Run under my network name, I created another user to the local machine and there I can use Run and try to ping out but can't even hit google.com, yet I can still connect to google through IE.

Any help out there?? TIA.

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I am an avid home user of BOINC and SETI and am trying to get it running on my work computer. I have read through some of the other threads and tried to figure it out but I still cannot connect. I have no control over what the XP SP2 Security Center allows and disallows, I have local admin rights but still cannot see the security center to allow bonic.exe and bonicmgr.exe access. Our network does use a SOCKS proxy and I have input all the information into BOINC but still cannot connect. I have tried basically everything I know, any help out there? Also, I have no access to Run under my network name, I created another user to the local machine and there I can use Run and try to ping out but can't even hit google.com, yet I can still connect to google through IE.

Any help out there?? TIA.

Just general Ports info. Until someone more knowledgeable answers.

boinc.exe needs internet access on ports 80 and 443 and local access (127.0.0.1) on ports 1043 and 31416.
boincmgr.exe, boinccmd.exe and boinc.scr need local access on ports 1043 and 31416.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

Just general Ports info. Until someone more knowledgeable answers.

boinc.exe needs internet access on ports 80 and 443 and local access (127.0.0.1) on ports 1043 and 31416.
boincmgr.exe, boinccmd.exe and boinc.scr need local access on ports 1043 and 31416.

Thanks for the reply. I can connect to the local host in BOINC. Does BOINC only need port 80 to downlaod/upload WU's? And if so why isn't it working for me as I have the proxy config setup and running thru port 80 within BOINC.

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Just general Ports info. Until someone more knowledgeable answers.

boinc.exe needs internet access on ports 80 and 443 and local access (127.0.0.1) on ports 1043 and 31416.
boincmgr.exe, boinccmd.exe and boinc.scr need local access on ports 1043 and 31416.

Thanks for the reply. I can connect to the local host in BOINC. Does BOINC only need port 80 to downlaod/upload WU's? And if so why isn't it working for me as I have the proxy config setup and running thru port 80 within BOINC.

I got into the Security Center through a windows help link ;). However, the SP2 firewall was turned off. I went ahead an added all BOINC exe's to the exceptions list as well as all the ports... UDP and TCP. And I still have the same problem when trying to attach to SETI using BOINC. Anyone have any ideas?

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I have the same problem, my work around was amazingly simple I downloaded the BBC Climent Experiment Boinc Manager and that worked great.

BBC CPDN

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I have the same problem, my work around was amazingly simple I downloaded the BBC Climent Experiment Boinc Manager and that worked great.

BBC CPDN

My understanding (and I stand to be corrected) is that this is a pared down version of Boinc and will not allow other projects to be attached.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

So, that means you can only connect and use CPDN... not SETI? Here it is Monday and I'm still having the same problems. I've tried everything I know and more to get it to connect... it simply will not.

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So, that means you can only connect and use CPDN... not SETI? Here it is Monday and I'm still having the same problems. I've tried everything I know and more to get it to connect... it simply will not.

Double check
boinc.exe needs internet access on ports 80 and 443
Could you post the message tab log.

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Boinc V 7.4.36
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB NVidia 470

2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||Starting BOINC client version 5.2.13 for windows_intelx86
2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||libcurl/7.14.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8 zlib/1.2.3
2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||Data directory: C:\\Program Files\\BOINC
2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||Memory: 509.98 MB physical, 1.45 GB virtual
2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||Disk: 38.28 GB total, 8.94 GB free
2/27/2006 10:59:15 AM||No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||Remote control not allowed; using loopback address
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||This computer is not attached to any projects.
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||There are several ways to attach to a project:
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||1) Run the BOINC Manager and click Projects.
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||2) (Unix/Mac) Use boinc_cmd --project_attach
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||3) (Unix/Mac) Run this program with the -attach_project command-line option.
2/27/2006 10:59:16 AM||Visit http://boinc.berkeley.edu for more information
2/27/2006 10:59:34 AM||Fetching config info from http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/get_project_config.php
2/27/2006 10:59:35 AM||Couldn't resolve hostname [setiathome.berkeley.edu]
2/27/2006 10:59:36 AM||Couldn't resolve hostname [www.yahoo.com]
2/27/2006 10:59:37 AM||Couldn't resolve hostname [www.google.com]

Then the same thing over and over as it cannot connect.

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OK we know that something is stopping Boinc from contacting the server, can not connect to Google.
Ports and Exes are allowed in XP firewall, but the firewall is not enabled...
This is behind a Corp firewall correct, this leads me to believe that the Corp firewall needs that port and Exe info also.
Last, have you shut Boinc down and/or rebooted computer after you changed setting?

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BOINC Wiki

OK we know that something is stopping Boinc from contacting the server, can not connect to Google.
Ports and Exes are allowed in XP firewall, but the firewall is not enabled...
This is behind a Corp firewall correct, this leads me to believe that the Corp firewall needs that port and Exe info also.
Last, have you shut Boinc down and/or rebooted computer after you changed setting?

Yes, I have tried all of the above accept for adding the exe/port to the firewall as I don't have the ability to do this. Is there no other way to force all data to use port 80?

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Clearly there is no DNS resolving the hostnames. What is the corporate policy on DNS. You run your own no doubt but after that which do you use? Until the host names are resolved there will be no connection whatsoever.

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Clearly there is no DNS resolving the hostnames. What is the corporate policy on DNS. You run your own no doubt but after that which do you use? Until the host names are resolved there will be no connection whatsoever.

I have no idea about any corporate IT info nor can I change any of it. I just figured there must be some way in this day and age to make it work. If can goto google.com and yahoo.com through IE then I don't understand why BOINC cannot connect. I understand the most likely reason is the DNS or port 443 being blocked... are there no other ways?? I can't run it all through port 80?

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"In this day and age", lots of people are trying to infiltrate companies computer systems. That's why the companies make it difficult to get in and out.

The rules for using the software say that people must have permission from the computer owner to install and run it. And this would include using any computer infrastruction, such as networks, firewalls, and proxies.

"In this day and age", lots of people are trying to infiltrate companies computer systems. That's why the companies make it difficult to get in and out.

The rules for using the software say that people must have permission from the computer owner to install and run it. And this would include using any computer infrastruction, such as networks, firewalls, and proxies.

I'm a network graduate myself... I know the policies and rules. Unfortunately I'm not in the IT dept here or I could make it work! I know that it's not entirely lawful to be trying this anyway but thought I'd give it a shot. So the outcome looks bleek... damn firewall!!

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