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I uninstalled BOINC and deleted the data directory. Rebooted. Installed BOINC. Rebooted. Changed password and set allow_remote_gui_rpc. Rebooted. Still no connection.

So I put on my miners hat and started digging deeper. Going back to my original thought of what the issue was I started to check the firewall settings. Even though I previously tried turning off the firewall it still didn't work. So checking the settings BOINC was allowed through the firewall but it was the wrong one.  The rule allowed the 32 bit one through and not the 64 bit one (different directory). Once I changed the rule it started working!

Thank you for all of your assistance.

No I did not do an uninstall of the 32 bit version before installing the 64 bit version. The installer should have done that. That is why I asked you previously if your install was new or an upgrade. I can try an uninstall.

No connection messages is the remote machine log. I also have  <allow_remote_gui_rpc>1</allow_remote_gui_rpc> set in the options section of the cc_config.xml file so connections should be accepted from any device.

Yes I am. There is a reservation in DNS for the MAC address.

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C:\Users\Don>ipconfig /all

Windows IP Configuration

   Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : BOINC01
   Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
   Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
   IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
   DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : djmuller.com

Ethernet adapter Ethernet 2:

   Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller #2
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1E-06-45-06-28
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes

Ethernet adapter Ethernet:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : djmuller.com
   Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
   Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1E-06-45-06-27
   DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
   Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.22.199(Preferred)
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:58:15 AM
   Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, April 24, 2020 11:12:39 AM
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.22.220
   DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.22.220
   DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.22.220
                                       192.168.22.242
   Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 192.168.22.220
   Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 192.168.22.242
   NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
   Connection-specific DNS Suffix Search List :
                                       djmuller.com

Both running Windows 10. BOINC01 was added before the upgrade as was working fine for months. After upgrade it stopped working.

I performed  https://efmer.com/boinctasks-add-computers/ and all was green on both sides. I did a find computers from BoincTasks and it found BOINC01 when the toolbox was running on BOINC01. It did not find it when the toolbox was not running.

BOINC01 has an IP of  192.168.22.199.

Was it installed on a different machine or on the same machine as BoincTasks? Was it an upgrade or a fresh install? I installed 7.16.5 on a different PC and it was an upgrade.

I upgraded the 7.14 PC again and it still won't connect. Here are the log results.

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3 April 2020 - 11:08:43 Logging ---- Start debug mode
23 April 2020 - 11:08:43 Logging ---- connecting
23 April 2020 - 11:08:43
23 April 2020 - 11:08:43 BoincTasks version: 1.78
23 April 2020 - 11:08:43 Language ---- User: 1033 (ENU), System: 1033 (ENU), Selected: 0 () Used: 1033 (ENU)
23 April 2020 - 11:08:43 Get localhost IP ---- Found IP: 192.168.22.5
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Maximum number of computers: Unlimited
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- BOINC01 , IP: boinc01.djmuller.com
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- BOINC02 , IP: boinc02.djmuller.com
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- BOINC03 , IP: boinc03.djmuller.com
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- DJMFS2 , MAC: 24-5E-BE-11-A3-3B
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- DJMFS3 , IP: djmfs3.djmuller.com
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- localhost get local password: (C:\ProgramData\BOINC\\gui_rpc_auth.cfg) Gandalf1
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- Dons-Surface , IP: localhost
23 April 2020 - 11:08:44 Computers ---- Dons-Surface-4 , MAC: 58-82-A8-95-84-44
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 19396
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: BOINC02, IP: boinc02.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 13588
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: BOINC03, IP: boinc03.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 7760
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: DJMFS2, IP: djmfs2.djmuller.com, MAC: 24-5E-BE-11-A3-3B, Port: 31416, Thread ID: 9592
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: DJMFS3, IP: djmfs3.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 4080
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: Dons-Surface, IP: localhost, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 18040
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: Dons-Surface-4, IP: dons-surface-4, MAC: 58-82-A8-95-84-44, Port: 31416, Thread ID: 18036
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: BOINC02, IP: boinc02.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, BOINC Version: 7.14.2
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: BOINC03, IP: boinc03.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, BOINC Version: 7.14.2
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: DJMFS3, IP: djmfs3.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, BOINC Version: 7.7.0
23 April 2020 - 11:08:45 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: Dons-Surface, IP: localhost, Port: 31416, BOINC Version: 7.14.2
23 April 2020 - 11:08:49 Search IP range: ---- Localhost IP: 192.168.22.5, IP found: 192.168.22.5 - 192.168.22.47 - 192.168.22.197 - 192.168.22.198 - 192.168.22.220 - 192.168.22.221 - 192.168.22.242
23 April 2020 - 11:08:57 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: Dons-Surface-4, IP: 192.168.22.47, MAC: 58-82-A8-95-84-44, Port: 31416, BOINC Version: 7.14.2
23 April 2020 - 11:08:57 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: DJMFS2, IP: 192.168.22.220, MAC: 24-5E-BE-11-A3-3B, Port: 31416, BOINC Version: 7.7.0
23 April 2020 - 11:09:03 Connect ---- Connected to: Host: localhost, Dons-Surface,Port: 31417, TThrottle Version: 7.72
23 April 2020 - 11:09:06 Search IP range: ---- Localhost IP: 192.168.22.5, IP found: 192.168.22.5 - 192.168.22.47 - 192.168.22.198 - 192.168.22.220 - 192.168.22.221 - 192.168.22.197 - 192.168.22.242
23 April 2020 - 11:09:07 Connect, init ---- Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, init, timeout error
23 April 2020 - 11:09:13 Memory ----
PageFaultCount : 0x00004968 18K
PeakWorkingSetSize : 0x03CE4000 63848K
WorkingSetSize : 0x03584000 56115K
QuotaPeakPagedPool : 0x000F4FD0 1003K
QuotaPagedPool : 0x0007E070 516K
QuotaPeakNonPagedPool : 0x0007B654 505K
QuotaNonPagedPool : 0x0001D1C8 119K
Pagefile : 0x020C9000 34377K
PeakPagefile : 0x02BE6000 46030K

23 April 2020 - 11:10:47 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 19396
23 April 2020 - 11:11:08 Connect, init ---- Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, init, timeout error
23 April 2020 - 11:12:47 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 19396
23 April 2020 - 11:13:08 Connect, init ---- Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, init, timeout error
23 April 2020 - 11:14:47 Connect ---- Try to connect to: Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, MAC: , Port: 31416, Thread ID: 19396
23 April 2020 - 11:15:08 Connect, init ---- Host: BOINC01, IP: boinc01.djmuller.com, Port: 31416, init, timeout error



BOINC01 is the PC that I upgraded. Dons-Surface is were BoincTasks is running.

BOINC01 is an Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4105 CPU @ 1.50GHz running Windows 10 and is up to date with all updates. Dons-Surface is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4650U CPU @ 1.70GHz running on Windows 10 and is up to date with all updates. I tried disabling the firewall on BOINC01 (Windows Firewall) and on Dons_Surface (Viper) and was still unable to connect.

Plesae let me know what else you need or how I can assist.

Don

Looks like the issue is BoincTasks connecting to the 64 bit version. Any ideas? Any info I can provide?

BTW, v7.14.2 is the last 32 bit version. V7.16.5 and future releases are 64 bit only.

Reinstalled the 32 bit version of 7.14.2 and it is working again. I don't see a 32 bit version of 7.16.5 available for download.

I am running BoincTasks V1.78 and it connects to 5 Windows 10 PCs and 2 Linux NAS devices with no problem. The Windows 10 PCs are running BOINC version 7.14.2 (32 bit). I updated BOINC on one of the Windows 10 PCs to version 7.16.5 (64 bit) and BoincTasks can no longer connect. I tried disabling the firewall on the updated PC and also on the one running BoincTasks. No go. GUI RPC allowed from any host is enabled. Password file is correct. Rebooted both PCs. Still no go.

Anyone else see this? Any ideas?

Don

I found the problem. I initially had the 64bit version of BOINC installed. I had set up BOINC as an allowed app in the firewall. I was having issues with the 64bit version. It crashes on certain Intel low power processors. I had to install the 32bit version which worked fine. However, the firewall rule was pointing to the 64bit version under the Program Files directory instead of the 32bit version under the Program Files (x86) directory. Once I corrected this BoincTasks was able to access these computers.

Thanks

I agree with Fred. Using a VPN would be far more secure. As he stated the communications is not encrypted, which probably includes the password.

I have BoincTasks running on a Windows 10 PC. It can attach to the Boinc tasks on 2 QNAP NAS devices (Linux) and 2 Surface Pro devices (Win 10) with no issues. I am running Vipre on the 2 Win 10 devices. I recently added 3 additional Win 10 devices. On these I am using the Windows included firewall. I cannot attach to these new devices with BoincTasks unless I disable the firewall. I have tried setting rules and cannot get it to work. Does anyone know how to configure the WIndows Firewall to allow BoincTasks attach to these devices? All devices are on the same subnet.

Thanks
Don

Hi,

Any update on this. I too have lost the Computer Selection and the Project Selection sidebars trying to resize it. I am unable to get it back. I was running 1.73 and even upgraded to 1.75 but no luck.