HI,

I created (and activated) my account.

As I already have some projects I tried to use the Project Sign Up page page to get my running projects.
But I tells me for all of them wrong password (I assume because they have all a different password).

So I tried to connect one of my clients with some projects.

It seem there is a valid connection, because I get some repleys.
When actual tring to login to bam it sends this request:
<acct_mgr_request>
<name>achims311</name>
<password_hash>xxx</password_hash>
<host_cpid>9a2883a668500c32aae9a8f7c65fa4d9</host_cpid>
<domain_name>achim.fra.ib.commerzbank.com</domain_name>
<client_version>5.4.3</client_version>
<run_mode>always</run_mode>
<prefs_mod_time>1144755791</prefs_mod_time>
<prefs_source_project>http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/</prefs_source_project>
<project>
<url>http://lhcathome.cern.ch/</url>
<project_name>LHC@home</project_name>
<suspended_via_gui>0</suspended_via_gui>
<account_key>xxx</account_key>
<hostid>98365</hostid>
</project>
<project>
......

But I get only the following back:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<acct_mgr_reply>
<error>User not found</error>
</acct_mgr_reply>

I know it is not the lasted Client Version, but it is the latest Debian version in testing.

I checked the debug data (server stores all client requests to BAM) and your password used for the client is not identical to the one used in BAM. This is weird as BAM doesn't allow you to change your password at the moment.

Please detach and reattach the client to BAM. Post here when you did so, and I'll recheck the debug data.

Sorry, but I'm not attached


Done.

I did a copy paste from the registration confirmation mail.
(Desktop is WinXP but I use cygwin X Server to display the boincmngr, maybe here comes as well a problem with all these non standard characters in my password.)

I'm confused. Big time. First this:




So, what is it?

Then this:


What did you copy and to where?

And lastly:


Then how did your client connect BAM?

Willy, I have one Host attached to BAM, when I try to add another i get this messag. 5/11/2006 5:51:30 PM||No accounts reported by account manager,

edit I figure it out. Host was using 5.2.13... not 5.4.xx

moving to own topic

I am able to get my clients to connect just fine to bam. I am using 5.4.3 or above (mostly 5.4.9). I have only done 3 hosts at this time, do to the beta nature of bam, but I can easly add 15 or so more when things seem to smooth out, or if you want the additional data.

I have noticed, however, that neither World Comunity Grid or RALPH are in the selection to join/lookup in. Is this do to their server configurations? Also, is there any way to automaticly join to projects when they come out (orbit@home, stardust@home) or for projects that reallow account creations (chess, malaria)?

One other thing I have had a problem with is that at times I cant update my hosts preferences (what projects to run on that comp). I select what I want, then click "set", yet when the screen refreshes it is back to what it was before., and an update on the client comp yelds no changes.

P.S., I have hit the 1mil mark!

WCG works in a very different way and does not support BAM in any way (at the moment). RALPH will be added very soon.


I will create a feature were you can select a project, and BAM will try to sign you up on regular intervals.


I may need more details on this (preferably new topic) but it sounds like a synchronisation problem between the BAM server and the WWW server.

Stardust is not a BOINC project and never will be, its a manual project which uses a browser

My client is a Debian linux using testing. This means I use 5.4.3 linux version.
The boinc manager is as well running under linux, but I'm not sitting in front of it, but in front of a Windows XP box.
So the linux boinc manager gui is showed on a windows XP desktop (using cygwin X Server).


I used the confirmation mail I get from bam with all the account details including user name and pasword to copy the user name and the password into the wizard to attach to BAM.


I would say it did not (successfully) conect till now.
This is exactly the problem.
If it helps here is the log file:
2006-05-11 17:28:27 [---] Fetching configuration file from http://bam.boincstats.com/get_project_config.php
2006-05-11 17:29:31 [---] Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
2006-05-11 17:29:35 [---] Account manager error: 0 User not found

reason for telling you all these details is:
As I'm using special charaters in my password I'm not sure if the password is corectly translated in all places
(Is the fnction password to password_hash behaving everywhere the same for special characters.) Is there a easy way to do the translation manually so I can check the generated request?

oh?
http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects...home_story.html

"We all know SETI@home, the wildly successful distributed computing program that brought together millions in a search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Now, just as SETI@home is transitioning to its new BOINC platform, it has spawned a new and no less remarkable scientific venture: Stardust@home, a project that will draw together users from around the world to search for tiny grains of interstellar dust. "

Less confused now

The special characters in your password were indeed causing the problem. I fixed it (at least, it now enumarates your client password hash correct) and you should now be able to connect a host to BAM and also be able to find your project accounts.

Read further on the Stardust site. They're trying to get the BOINC users to look at it, but it isn't a BOINC project. It involves downloading image files and doing manual inspections. They're trying to ride BOINC's coattails is all.

From the Stardust FAQ page:

A bit of reading goes a long way!! lol

Yes got one client connected, and one not (due to wrong version (5.3.12).
Thank you very much.

But now I got a problem loggin into bam itself.
But it might be due to the next computer.....

Hmmm, tested that, but I don't have special chars in my PW (it's just 20 chars long). Will look into it some more.

I was able to log in before you changed the client logic.

and the client can still connect


Achim

Solved this now.

The problem was that your password hash was still based on the incorrect password.

You can login now.

Great!

It works

Got a little problem to get pam working.
did get my account.
loaded boinc manager 5.4.9
when i add the manager everything looks allrigth
when i look in the "Meldungen" tab after that
i see
02.07.2006 18:37:52||Fetching configuration file from http://bam.boincstats.com/get_project_config.php
02.07.2006 18:38:00||Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/
02.07.2006 18:38:02||Account manager contact succeeded
02.07.2006 18:38:02||No signing key from account manager


and in the acct_mgr_reply.xml it says:
<b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in <b>/home/bam/site/rpc.php</b> on ...



and i dont get the new projekts into boinc.
manual added projekts still running

greetings wolfi

Fixed.

Updated the server software today, and something went wrong with the DB connections.

Thank You,
it works now