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Message 9369 - Posted: 15 Feb 2005, 22:28:00 UTC

Hello,

I can't convince my computer that it is located at "School". It insists on using the preferences for "Home".

I went to my account under CPDN, then to My Computers, then to that specific computer and it says that location is "School". But whenever I update the project, the BOINC client says "General prefs: using separate prefs for home". Which of course are the wrong preferences for this specific machine...

Any ideas?
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Friedrich

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Message 9373 - Posted: 15 Feb 2005, 23:37:20 UTC

There is a bug in the current public release of BOINC.

I think it is corrected in the 4.2x client which should be out next month.
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Message 9386 - Posted: 16 Feb 2005, 7:36:55 UTC
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If you're happy editing XML files you can force a venue change by stopping BOINC and editing the client_state.xml file. Search for the string <b>host_venue</b> in the file, and change the setting from <b>home</b> to <b>school</b> if it's found. If It isn't found you need to add the following line before the last line in the file:

<b>&lt;host_venue&gt;school&lt;/host_venue&gt;</b>
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Message 9436 - Posted: 17 Feb 2005, 1:09:15 UTC - in response to Message 9386.  

&gt; If you're happy editing XML files you can force a venue change by stopping
&gt; BOINC and editing the client_state.xml file. Search for the string
&gt; <b>host_venue</b> in the file, and change the setting from <b>home</b> to
&gt; <b>school</b> if it's found. If It isn't found you need to add the following
&gt; line before the last line in the file:
&gt;
&gt; <b>school</b>
That did the job.

Thank you very much!

Friedrich
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