I have just installed BOINC 6.10.11 on Windows Home Server (it's a Windows Server 2003 variant).

First of all I must say that it's impossible to use a network directory as a "Data folder" for BOINC (and it's a problem with WHS because you should use its HDD with network path to not disturb drive manager) and so I had to manually put a physical drive directory (hoping to not destroy my backups circumventing network paths). If I put a network path, manager cannot connect to client.
Second thing, it's impossible to install as a service (protected mode execution during installation) because in this way the manager is unable to connect to the client. Why? It's rather annoying because WHS is headless and I never keep a user logged on!

Any suggestion or is this the only way at the moment to use boinc on WHS?
Thanks a lot!

This thread could be related.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

Thanks Gundolf Jahn but Windows Home Server doesn't work as a domain controller. I don't know if the issue could be the same, I don't know how a domain controller precisely works under the hood.

To be precise, I have installed 6.10.11 after having tried a lot of older version (6.4.5, 6.4.7, 6.6.20, 6.6.36, 6.10.3/4/5/6) without any luck

nobody is able to help me?

I asked the developers a couple of days ago, but am still waiting for an answer. I'll send another email after it.

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I asked the developers a couple of days ago, but am still waiting for an answer. I'll send another email after it.

Thank you Ageless. I'll patiently wait

I have just installed BOINC 5.10.45 and I found that it works correctly, at least it seems so now (service and network data directory, well installation directory as it was in v5.x).
Fortunately the server doesn't have any gpu in now, but if I want to add one I will be in serious troubles... did you get any news, Ageless?

No, even though I asked repeatedly. But I'll try to talk to one of the developers through other channels this week.

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You've got a private message (top of the forums).

I've sent you one of the developers his email address, for you to contact him so he can make an appointment with you to remote log in to your machine. Neither he, nor the other developers, have ever seen or used a WHS, so they don't know why BOINC 6 won't install correctly or run on it.

By giving him this access, he can learn and see first hand what goes wrong.
With thanks if you take the invite.

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I have also now disabled & uninstalled BOINC 5.10.45 because it has somehow interferred with some services I manually set up with AnyService Installer for WHS. I blamed boinc 5.10 because nothing else changed, uninstalling it magically re-enabled my services which started without erroring out but were not working

ps: I have just sent an email to Rom