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download client:
http://www.stanford.edu/~kasson/folding/Folding@Home Windows SMP Client.EXE
and run the installer to a easier directory than the standard, i usually pick:
C:\fah
for the next steps you need to be logged in with admin rights to the machine and on Vista turn off UAC from the security centre.
if you have tried to install this before, open a cmd window and type:
smpd -remove
mpiexec -remove
check the task manager to make sure neither smpd or mpiexec or any stray cores are running (force them to quite if they are)
either double click on the Install.bat file that was extracted from the installer or from a cmd prompt type:
smpd -install
mpiexec -register
it will ask you for your username and password, make sure you enter the username/password of the user you are going to boot/use the machine with.
This will then come up with the message that it has encrypted the password in the registery.
check the task manager and make sure both services are running.
you can then run the client in the usual way:
fah -forceasm -verbosity 9
for the brave among you, you can get it running as a service, by setting that option in the config (1st run, or from fah -configonly).....but make sure you go into admistrative tools/services and change the "Log on" option from "system account" to the actual user/password of the user who is going to boot the machine. and then change the registry value to incorporate the flags that you require.
i have this running on 2 vista and 3 xp machines with no issues.
if you are suffering from loads of client communication errors, either the mpiexec or smpd services are not install properly (password/persmissions/etc), unistall and reinstall them as above.
i hope this helps.
lee
http://www.stanford.edu/~kasson/folding/Folding@Home Windows SMP Client.EXE
and run the installer to a easier directory than the standard, i usually pick:
C:\fah
for the next steps you need to be logged in with admin rights to the machine and on Vista turn off UAC from the security centre.
if you have tried to install this before, open a cmd window and type:
smpd -remove
mpiexec -remove
check the task manager to make sure neither smpd or mpiexec or any stray cores are running (force them to quite if they are)
either double click on the Install.bat file that was extracted from the installer or from a cmd prompt type:
smpd -install
mpiexec -register
it will ask you for your username and password, make sure you enter the username/password of the user you are going to boot/use the machine with.
This will then come up with the message that it has encrypted the password in the registery.
check the task manager and make sure both services are running.
you can then run the client in the usual way:
fah -forceasm -verbosity 9
for the brave among you, you can get it running as a service, by setting that option in the config (1st run, or from fah -configonly).....but make sure you go into admistrative tools/services and change the "Log on" option from "system account" to the actual user/password of the user who is going to boot the machine. and then change the registry value to incorporate the flags that you require.
i have this running on 2 vista and 3 xp machines with no issues.
if you are suffering from loads of client communication errors, either the mpiexec or smpd services are not install properly (password/persmissions/etc), unistall and reinstall them as above.
i hope this helps.
lee