Hi

I've got a laptop that I'm ok to run BOINC on but can't install anything on (it's an expired laptop which we don't have the admin password for, but don't want to have to reinstall windows on as it works fine).

I'd like to have it run Rosetta from the media server when it's idle, but I'm not sure how to do that. I've copied both an existing BOINC installation folder and an existing Rosetta folder to a parent folder that's writeable/readable over the LAN. Does anyone know whether there's an xml or similar which points BOINC at the right folder or is that all held in the registry?

ta
Danny

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What are you running for an OS? If it is windows I'm in the dark. If UNIX / Linux there may be a couple of options for you.

Most of the older Linux & UNIX systems would come up single user as "root" at which point you own the machine and can set any password you want. The assumption was if you could physically touch the machine at reboot it, you owned it.

Another option would be just to mount the drive with NFS or SAMBA and run it like there - as long as you did not try to share the folder with another system it should work.

Hi

I've got a laptop that I'm ok to run BOINC on but can't install anything on (it's an expired laptop which we don't have the admin password for, but don't want to have to reinstall windows on as it works fine).

Why not just reset the administrator password? With the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor it's a breeze...

I'd like to have it run Rosetta from the media server when it's idle, but I'm not sure how to do that. I've copied both an existing BOINC installation folder and an existing Rosetta folder to a parent folder that's writeable/readable over the LAN. Does anyone know whether there's an xml or similar which points BOINC at the right folder or is that all held in the registry?

What exactly do you mean by "run from the media server"? Do you mean that you want to run BOINC on the laptop with the data folders on the server? Why can't you leave the data on the laptop?

Ralf

Hi

I've got a laptop that I'm ok to run BOINC on but can't install anything on (it's an expired laptop which we don't have the admin password for, but don't want to have to reinstall windows on as it works fine).

Why not just reset the administrator password? With the Offline NT Password & Registry Editor it's a breeze...
Ralf

I agree with Ralf, although I have used other programs ie Hiren's Boot CD, there are many Windows password resetters out there that you can use to fix the problem. And NO you do not need to know the old password to change it, the program gets you right in, you pick the new password, reboot and you are good to go.

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I've reset the admin password and installed it locally now- thanks for the comments. I should have said it's XP Pro. It's not the fastest thing out there but I've reduced the voltage using RMClock so it should get the occasional job done whenever it's on mains power...

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I usually just leave the laptop running and use VNC to check on BOINC every so often.

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I've reset the admin password and installed it locally now- thanks for the comments. I should have said it's XP Pro.

Doesn't matter, as long as you need the local, non-AD password reset. I have used it on all version of Windows from NT 4.0 to Windows 7 64bit and it works better than anything else. And I have tried a lot, as I need to do things like this as part of my daily job as IT service engineer... ;-)

Ralf

OK, i've got a new reason to run rosie over a LAN (running Windows from USB flash and I need to keep as much space on it free as possible)... I could probably install BOINC to a mapped drive but I'd rather not have to worry about the drive disconnecting if the host is rebooted etc.

So, does anyone know where BOINC stores the location of the project folder in Win 7? Or is it default behaviour for it to look in %ProgramData%BOINC in the first instance? Basically I want to change where it looks as I want it to look at a unc location or IP address...

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Danny

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OK, i've got a new reason to run rosie over a LAN (running Windows from USB flash and I need to keep as much space on it free as possible)... I could probably install BOINC to a mapped drive but I'd rather not have to worry about the drive disconnecting if the host is rebooted etc.

So, does anyone know where BOINC stores the location of the project folder in Win 7? Or is it default behaviour for it to look in %ProgramData%BOINC in the first instance? Basically I want to change where it looks as I want it to look at a unc location or IP address...

ta
Danny

You can manually tell Boinc where to look for the folders during the Boinc installation, you just chose the directories during the setup process. But yes on my Win7 it uses C:/ProgramData/Boinc/projects as the default folder.