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Ok, I'll try not to confuse the heck out of you guys with this problem, but here goes...

I have a GPU client, and 2 VM SMP clients running Ubuntu on my desktop computer. I also have the linux Uni-processor client on my laptop (which runs Ubuntu). Now, I have FahMon installed on both computers - Windows desktop, and Ubuntu laptop. I setup the VMs to share their folders, and can monitor the GPU and the VM's successfully on my Windows machine. I can also view the client on my laptop from the FahMon on my laptop. Now what I'd like to do is be able to see all of the clients from my laptop. I can see the shared folders in Ubuntu, and can navigate through them, but when I try to setup the new clients in FahMon, it doesn't show them. I tried entering the info the same way I did for the VM's in Windows: "\\ip_address\Folding1\home\steve\" but that didn't work, I tried "\\ip_address/Folding1/home/steve/" but again, nothing. I also tried to verify that it wasn't something with the VM's that wasn't working, so I tried to add the GPU client in the same manner, but I couldn't get that to work either.

So, any ideas on how to get these working on my laptop? Am I just entering these clients in an incorrect manner? Is there something else I'm missing?? Let me know what you guys think. I'm open to any and all suggestions! Thank you very much in advance!

Woody

I don't know if it helps, but the way I do it, on my ubuntu machine I issue at startup an:
sudo mount -t cifs -o user=<userid>,password=<password>,ro //ip_address/myfiles /mnt/loop commands
i.e. mounting the remote machine home exported ome directory, and then on the monitoring machine the fahmon address will look like /mnt/loop/foldingathome/CPU1 i.e. the folding directory relative to the home directory on the remote machine.

Although I monitor 30 plus Linux machines on a Mac, our situation is not that different.

What I did was simply configure Samba on all Linux machines so that anyone with an account on those machines (only me at present) could share files.
Authentication is passworded and I use encryption (easily set up).
I set my shares as my home directory and my FAH SMP directory. I generally do not use the "home" share.
This works flawlessly and allows me to quickly exchange files across my entire network in addition to monitoring FAH on each machine.

I used Samba since I also have dedicated Windows folders. Samba is obviously quite compatible with them.
My monitoring of my ENTIRE folding farm is done on one little Mac Mini using an "uninstalled" version of InCrease.
It's "uninstalled" since the mini is also running the SMP client from the console mode and I did not want it under the control of InCrease.
(the bash shell provides a TON of information that never hits Fahlog.txt and is VERY useful for debugging purposes)

Anyway, that was the quickest, easiest, and most efficient solution for my farm.

Good luck!

John

Well, I have no problems sharing the folders. I can see them from my Ubuntu laptop, but I just don't know how to enter that info into FahMon for it to work. For those of you who are using FahMon in Ubuntu, and monitoring a box on your network, can you paste in here exactly how you have the client entered in FahMon?? Thanks again everyone!

Very basically what I do is open nautilus file manager(if you don't have a shortcut to it just open a terminal and type nautilus) and click on Network. Then I double click on the computer name of the fah client and double click on the fah directory/folder(which is the folder I've shared). This adds an entry to the left side of nautilus(fah on computer_name).

Then add a client in FAHMON and for location click on browse and double click on "fah on computer_name".

That's very odd. When I try that, it shows the shared folder on the left side of Nautilus, but doesn't show it (or even Network) when I go to add a new client to FahMon...

Do a "pwd" from the shared directory. It should tell you exactly how to describe that directory to FahMon (provided it's the one containing ./work/ and queue.dat.)

I have no idea how to get to the shared folder from the command line. I tried copy and pasting what Nautilus has in the "Location" bar, but that didn't work either.