Comment 3 for bug 109809

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Oldcrow (jsheuer) wrote : Re: [Bug 109809] Re: boinc client quit communicating with manager after installing kubuntu-desktop onto xubuntu 6.10

Thanks, finally got it working.

Jeff

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 01:51, Frank S. Thomas wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 08:54, Oldcrow wrote:
> > It's me again. I got it working by myself working on a hunch. Boinc
> > runs fine after uninstalling KmyFirewall. As I could not find an easy
> > way to fix it, I am looking for another firewall instead. Maybe
> > KmyFirewall author should make the program a bit more user-friendly.
> >
> > I opened everything under incoming and outgoing. The localhost is shown
> > as 'friendly' in the firewall, but still it blocked boinc client from
> > talking with KBoincSpy.
>
> BOINC uses port 31416, so you should not restrict access to this port for
> localhost and you should make sure that you used localhost as host in
> KBoincSpy's "Add Location" dialog. (I assume boinc-client and kboincspy are
> installed on the same host.)
>
> Grüße,
> Frank