Remote control - Mac OS X

Herge
Herge
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Topic 190798

I want to control Boinc on my powerbook running Panther from my powermac running Tiger. I failed so far. I looked into Wiki and it didn't help much. Both macs are connected together through an ethernet switch. I have actived the appropriate services and have no problem sharing files or connecting remotely with ssh between both macs. I am running in cmdline mode on the powerbook and have started boinc with allow_remote_gui_rpc.

I'm stuck :-(

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Remote control - Mac OS X

Herge
Herge
Joined: 24 Apr 05
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I solved my problem. First,

I solved my problem. First, I had the firewall active. But even then I was getting an invalid password error. I had change the pw in the gui_rpc_auth.cfg file. I deleted the file and restarted the manager and I was then able to remotely connect using the pw generated by Boinc. There might be some rules about the pw, like a minimal length ...

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