Client not connecting....

[Banditman]

I have been having to fight with the client to connect to download or upload work. Sometimes it will connect and other times it won't. All firewalls are set to allow the F@H client. Any ideas?

Logs:

FAHlog:
--- Opening Log file [May 23 01:31:15]


# Windows Console Edition ################################################## ###
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Folding@Home Client Version 5.04beta

Folding@Home Distributed Computing

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Launch directory: D:\Program Files\Folding@Home
Executable: D:\Program Files\Folding@Home\FAH504-Console.exe


[01:31:15] - Ask before connecting: No
[01:31:15] - User name: HL_Banditman (Team 50578)
[01:31:15] - User ID: CD6743461845BCC
[01:31:15] - Machine ID: 2
[01:31:15]
[01:31:15] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:31:15] + Benchmarking ...
[01:31:18] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[01:31:18] + Attempting to get work packet
[01:31:18] - Connecting to assignment server
[01:31:19] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133).
[01:31:19] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[01:31:20] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:31:20] + Could not connect to Work Server
[01:31:20] - Error: Attempt #1 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[01:31:27] + Attempting to get work packet
[01:31:27] - Connecting to assignment server
[01:31:28] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133).
[01:31:28] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[01:31:28] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:31:29] + Could not connect to Work Server
[01:31:29] - Error: Attempt #2 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[01:31:51] + Attempting to get work packet
[01:31:51] - Connecting to assignment server
[01:31:52] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.133).
[01:31:52] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[01:31:52] Loaded queue successfully.
[01:31:53] + Could not connect to Work Server
[01:31:53] - Error: Attempt #3 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

[Panda Man]

I have the same issue. I just let it keep trying, it eventually gets through (I let it attemp 12 times) Make sure you don't have it set up to use a proxy. Expect an edit in a few.

[Banditman]

Nope, I don't use proxy servers. All they do is slow things down.

[Panda Man]

I found the post I was looking for

The Official Milestone Thread

Sry I can't be of much help, wait until screwball gets on, he knows alot more than I do.

[Banditman]

After 3 hours, the client still won't connect to work server. hmmm. Maybe the server is down.

[Adak]

Originally Posted by Banditman

After 3 hours, the client still won't connect to work server. hmmm. Maybe the server is down.

Server 122.133 is for deadlineless or timeless WU's only, and there are no more timeless WU's being given or accepted - that project is complete.

If you're trying to connect with it, you need to restart your FAH client with the " -configonly" parameter included, and let the FAH client ask you about a new configuration.

Be sure to say "No" to deadlineless or timeless WU questions.

When complete, the FAH client will stop. Restart it again, to have the new configuration loaded into it, and you'll be good to go.

Patiently waiting for it will do you no good - no more timeless WU's are scheduled.

[polobunny]

Also, your client falls back to that server if it can't get WU's from another one. Do -configonly and be sure to turn off Use IE Settings. Same thing happened to me on several machines, it tooks ages for me to notice it. :(
Damned IE7.

[Banditman]

Originally Posted by Adak

Server 122.133 is for deadlineless or timeless WU's only, and there are no more timeless WU's being given or accepted - that project is complete.

If you're trying to connect with it, you need to restart your FAH client with the " -configonly" parameter included, and let the FAH client ask you about a new configuration.

Be sure to say "No" to deadlineless or timeless WU questions.

When complete, the FAH client will stop. Restart it again, to have the new configuration loaded into it, and you'll be good to go.

Patiently waiting for it will do you no good - no more timeless WU's are scheduled.

Ahh, ok. Thanks

Originally Posted by polobunny

Also, your client falls back to that server if it can't get WU's from another one. Do -configonly and be sure to turn off Use IE Settings. Same thing happened to me on several machines, it tooks ages for me to notice it. :(
Damned IE7.

It already is set to NO. Already figured that one out!!

[screwballl]

In cases like this, it just means that the servers that hand out the work units are down. Just let it run and it will get them when it sees the servers are up again... a little down time for that hard working box!

[Banditman]

No down time for the HL team!