I recently added a second machine to S@H, located at work. But even if I have made a complete "work" set of preferences and also set this CPU to venue "work", BOINC Manager on this new machine still says something along ...

"No preferences for home, using your defaults"

Note the "home" word in that message... Any ideas why?
I did this change some days ago, so I'd expect that the system shoul've picked up my changes by now. (I tried to lookup this in Paul D. Buck's docs, but could not find anything about this peculiar thing there...)

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Some previous versions of Boinc do not handle very well the venue of the pc. When you change the venue of the pc on the web, this is not updated by then client. You had to stop boinc and manually edit the client_state.xml file.

Version 4.32 handles this OK, I think it was solved before this version, but not sure in which one.

Hope this helps

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> Version 4.32 handles this OK, I think it was solved before this version, but
> not sure in which one.

4.2x have this bug removed. I recomend an update to the stable 4.25, or even to the dev 4.32 (possible buggy, may eat your puter). I run 4.30 without problems.

Here in this thread is the manual solution for the outdated 4.19:
Here is a manual solution. Exit out of BOINC. Edit your client_state.xml file. Search for the host_venue tag set. If your file was like mine, there was no host_venue tagset. In that case add the following line

<host_venue>school</host_venue>

just before the last line which should be

</client_state>

Once you have saved the changes, restart BOINC and you will see it now uses the alternate prefs. This change will remain even after your projects contact the server.

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Gruesse vom Saenger

For questions about Boinc look in the BOINC-Wiki

The first time I ran 4.30 I had to manually update each and every project so it would work with the seperate preferences. So be warned, if you first start 4.2x or 4.3x, that you may still see all projects say "Using your default project prefs".

Manually update the Projects, then it'll work out okay.

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Thanks everyone! :)

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