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Guide: Running FAH on Smoothwall
This guide will attempt to easily illustrate how-to setup a Smoothwall router/firewall system with the Folding@Home program. This guide was written with the helpful posts/input of SK8, Xenocide, and SavageBasher, and of course - Arkaine23. Thanks guys
To install FAH (Folding@Home client), you will need the following programs:
WinSCP3
PuTTY
Folding@Home Linux Client
I also have them mirrored on my server if you are unable to download them from their respective sites, here:
WinSCP3
PuTTY
Step 1 - Turning on SSH:
Remotely log into your Smoothwall box from your browser. To do this, type in "http://192.168.0.1:81" in the address bar of your browser, and press enter.
Click the "Services" tab, you will be prompted for your username and password, by default the username is "admin", and you created the password when you setup your smoothwall installation for the first time. Please note these textboxes are case-sensitive!
After logging in, click on the "Remote Access" Button, and CHECK "SSH" and then click the "Save" button.
Step 2 - Logging in:
Install WinSCP3. Start the program and click the "New" button in the upper right-hand corner.
In the "Hostname" box type in the IP of the smoothwall box, by default it is "192.168.0.1". Be sure to change the "Port number" to "222" instead of just "22". Type "root" as the username, and whichever password you created during initial setup of your smoothwall box for the root username, and press the "Login" button.
Step 3 - Copying over the FAH program:
When first logging onto your smoothwall box, you will see something very similar to this. Go up one directory in the tree, (click the little up arrow and two dots). Create a new directory, (goto the "Files" menu and choose "Create New Directory"). Name this new folder "FAH".
Double-click this new fah directory to enter it. Rename the FAH client to "fah.exe", to make things simpler. Copy the file into the /fah directory (copy and paste, or click and drag).
Step 4 - Setting file permissions with PuTTY:
Start PuTTY.exe and login the same way you did with WinSCP3. On the next screen, it will prompt you for your username and password. These are the same as before, "root" is the username by default, and whatever password you chose. Press enter, and you will be at the command line of your smoothwall installation.
Type "cd .." and enter to go up a directory. Then type "cd fah", enter, to go into the FAH directory you made in Step 3. Type "chmod +x fah.exe", enter, to enable write-permissions to the FAH setup program, and finally "./fah.exe", enter, to start the setup.
That's it! All that's left to do is enter your username and team number (32 i'm hoping), and the program will download its first protein and start folding. I'll follow up with an addition to show how-to fold automatically after restart, much like Wedo's fantastic One-click, as soon as i figure out how Please direct questions/comments here, or PM me. Hope this helps!
This guide will attempt to easily illustrate how-to setup a Smoothwall router/firewall system with the Folding@Home program. This guide was written with the helpful posts/input of SK8, Xenocide, and SavageBasher, and of course - Arkaine23. Thanks guys
To install FAH (Folding@Home client), you will need the following programs:
WinSCP3
PuTTY
Folding@Home Linux Client
I also have them mirrored on my server if you are unable to download them from their respective sites, here:
WinSCP3
PuTTY
Step 1 - Turning on SSH:
Remotely log into your Smoothwall box from your browser. To do this, type in "http://192.168.0.1:81" in the address bar of your browser, and press enter.
Click the "Services" tab, you will be prompted for your username and password, by default the username is "admin", and you created the password when you setup your smoothwall installation for the first time. Please note these textboxes are case-sensitive!
After logging in, click on the "Remote Access" Button, and CHECK "SSH" and then click the "Save" button.
Step 2 - Logging in:
Install WinSCP3. Start the program and click the "New" button in the upper right-hand corner.
In the "Hostname" box type in the IP of the smoothwall box, by default it is "192.168.0.1". Be sure to change the "Port number" to "222" instead of just "22". Type "root" as the username, and whichever password you created during initial setup of your smoothwall box for the root username, and press the "Login" button.
Step 3 - Copying over the FAH program:
When first logging onto your smoothwall box, you will see something very similar to this. Go up one directory in the tree, (click the little up arrow and two dots). Create a new directory, (goto the "Files" menu and choose "Create New Directory"). Name this new folder "FAH".
Double-click this new fah directory to enter it. Rename the FAH client to "fah.exe", to make things simpler. Copy the file into the /fah directory (copy and paste, or click and drag).
Step 4 - Setting file permissions with PuTTY:
Start PuTTY.exe and login the same way you did with WinSCP3. On the next screen, it will prompt you for your username and password. These are the same as before, "root" is the username by default, and whatever password you chose. Press enter, and you will be at the command line of your smoothwall installation.
Type "cd .." and enter to go up a directory. Then type "cd fah", enter, to go into the FAH directory you made in Step 3. Type "chmod +x fah.exe", enter, to enable write-permissions to the FAH setup program, and finally "./fah.exe", enter, to start the setup.
That's it! All that's left to do is enter your username and team number (32 i'm hoping), and the program will download its first protein and start folding. I'll follow up with an addition to show how-to fold automatically after restart, much like Wedo's fantastic One-click, as soon as i figure out how
Please direct questions/comments here, or PM me. Hope this helps!
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Been swamped with work and school lately, but all that's needed to do is figure out exactly how to properly run a script, that will automatically start folding.
