Hello,

I have a headless linux server with BOINC installed, and a Windows "main computer" running BOINC as well.
So far to control the Linux host I used BoincTasks wich is able to connect to both clients at the same time showing tasks and stats, but it is not able to change some preferences like for example max cpu usage percentage.

Boinc Manager on the other hand allows you to connect to one client at at time, which can still be fine to me; problem is, each time I wish to connect to my remote (linux) pc I have to re-enter the password every time.
While the ip address gets saved in the history, apparently there is no way to save remote client password... or is it?

Thanks!

Here's a little trick which has worked for me for many years, across many (Windows) versions of BOINC Manager.

All my remote clients are on the same private LAN, behind a firewall, and nobody else has access. So I'm not concerned about BOINC security at all: and I've set every machine (via gui_rpc_auth.xml) to use the same, very simple, password. That includes the 'Manager' machine I'm using to access the remotes.

When I want to view/manage a remote machine, I open the 'Select computer...' dialog, type a random character into the 'Host name' field (space will do), and backspace/delete it again. That populates the password box with an obfuscated (blobbed) version of the simple password. Then, I can type the name of the remote computer, or select it from the memorised list - and it lets me in.