Manually retry connection to remote computer

[hucker]

When trying to get a remote computer to talk to my main one, I have to wait to see if BoincTasks gets the connection or not, and I'm never sure how long to wait!  Some way of telling it to retry immediately would be helpful.

[fred]

When trying to get a remote computer to talk to my main one, I have to wait to see if BoincTasks gets the connection or not, and I'm never sure how long to wait!  Some way of telling it to retry immediately would be helpful.

Simply click on the disconnected computer on the computer sidebar.

[Pepo]

Some way of telling it to retry immediately would be helpful.

In this case (actually, each time) I'll click on the remote computer's network name (on Computers tab, IP Address column) as if to edit it and immediately press enter after making no change. BT then immediately goes into the connection cycle.

I'll try the sidebar the next time, but I suspect it never did the trick for me. (My reconnect timeout is around 10 minutes.)

[fred]

In this case (actually, each time) I'll click on the remote computer's network name (on Computers tab, IP Address column) as if to edit it and immediately press enter after making no change. BT then immediately goes into the connection cycle.

I'll try the sidebar the next time, but I suspect it never did the trick for me. (My reconnect timeout is around 10 minutes.)

That's the hard way and not recommended, clicking on the sidebar is the way it's designed to work.

If you have the connection logging active, you should see: 08 december 2011 - 14:50:07 Connect ---- Forced reconnect request to: Host: in the logging.

[hucker]

Cool thanks!  I'd forgotten about the computer sidebar as I switched it off ages ago thinking I wouldn't need it.

[Pepo]

In this case (actually, each time) I'll click on the remote computer's network name (on Computers tab, IP Address column) as if to edit it and immediately press enter after making no change. BT then immediately goes into the connection cycle.

I'll try the sidebar the next time, but I suspect it never did the trick for me. (My reconnect timeout is around 10 minutes.)

That's the hard way and not recommended, clicking on the sidebar is the way it's designed to work.

If you have the connection logging active, you should see: 08 december 2011 - 14:50:07 Connect ---- Forced reconnect request to: Host: in the logging.

Tried the sidebar and it connected
Just to remember the correct steps to do