Hi all,

I work for an IT support company and have a little query for you.

A customer of ours runs BOINC on her office computer, she runs the climate change program. Sometimes, she uses remote desktop to connect to a server.

Somehow, BOINC services have started running on the server and the icon is in the system tray.

If I try and remove BOINC from the server using add/remove programs, it says it cannot find the network resource (I assume the location it was installed from?)

Any help would be great.

Dunc


P.S.
I use SETI@Home all the time so i'm not new to it. I still have no idea how it could have pushed itself up to the server via Remote Desktop!!

Hi all,

I work for an IT support company and have a little query for you.

A customer of ours runs BOINC on her office computer, she runs the climate change program. Sometimes, she uses remote desktop to connect to a server.

Somehow, BOINC services have started running on the server and the icon is in the system tray.

If I try and remove BOINC from the server using add/remove programs, it says it cannot find the network resource (I assume the location it was installed from?)

Any help would be great.

Dunc

Does the remote server run on the same domain as the user's ordinary workstation, and does she use the same login credentials on both machines?

If so, her domain account could have been set up with a profile stored on the domain server, and standard settings (including desktop and startup items) could migrate between machines that way. It wouldn't necessarily mean that BOINC, or any science applications, were actually running on the server, just that some of the icons were visible.

Solutions - don't use server profiles unless strictly necessary: use different logins for daily workstation / server administration roles: uninstall BOINC from the workstation (it should leave the CPDN model intact, but make a backup to be on the safe side) and re-install it as a service without an automatic startup for the manager.