Good day! After failing for 3 times setting linux (minimum CentOS) fah client, I finally got it working today. :banana: I'd like to share problems I had during setup and solutions for it. My goal was to setup folding on linux machine via terminal and connect/control all folding machines clients within lan to my main pc. current setup: local (daily usage pc) : Windows client - 2 GPUs : 6870 + 5770 (fed by 2500k) Sharon : Windows Client - SMP : Core2Duo E8400 linux : CentOS 6.3 - SMP : Core2Duo E7200 1st problem I hit on running fah on linux is connecting to fah servers, console error below : Code: WARNING:WU00:FS00:Failed to get assignment from 'assign4.stanford.edu:80': Could not get IP address for assign4.stanford.edu: Temporary failure in name resolution I got it solved by editing /etc/resolv.conf , which is apparently responsible for DNS stuff: added 2 lines : nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 Code: # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver 8.8.8.8 # added nameserver 8.8.4.4 # added search local # No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your # ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so: # # DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx # DOMAIN=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com After adding this 2 lines, fah client successfully fetched WU from FAH server. However, on system restart it went back to default, edit your eth0 (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0) or whatever by adding this line: Code: NM_CONTROLLED="no" this will disable networkManager(wireless connector?), that keeps rewriting our script. 2nd problem I run into is allowing access for windows machine to control linux fah client. It was rather easy task by adding this 2 lines into /etc/fahclient/config.xml <command-allow v='127.0.0.1,network.ip.to.allow'/> <command-allow-no-pass v='127.0.0.1,network.ip.to.allow'/> where 127.0.0.1 is localhost, so we can control FAHClient from linux machine and 'network.ip.to.allow' is ip to machine that will control linux's FAHClient. (in my case windows machine) Code: .... <smp value="true"/> <!-- If true, attempt to autoconfigure SMP --> <gpu value="false"/> <!-- If true, attempt to autoconfigure GPUs --> <!-- Remote Command Server --> <command-allow v='127.0.0.1,192.168.0.2'/> <command-allow-no-pass v='127.0.0.1,192.168.0.2'/> <!-- Folding Slots --> .... I already had client folding, so to apply changes to xml I needed to run command Code: /etc/init.d/FAHClient reload After adding linux machine network IP on windows fah control, it instantly hooked it up as shown in screenshot above. software used : windows PC : FAHControl 7.2.9 Linux PC : fahclient-7.2.9-1.x86_64.rpm
