FAH can't get work while not logged in?

[Karbon]

on my sisters laptop she has it set so it logs out after like 30 seconds (so i cant use it lol). it folds while its not logged in except i dont think it is able to get WU's from the stanford servers, so it sits idle for sometimes up to a day

its not possible to run 2 instances on it btw (i have no access to it)

heres some of the log

16:50:57] + Attempting to get work packet
[16:50:57] - Connecting to assignment server
[16:50:58] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.89.149).
[16:50:58] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[16:50:58] Loaded queue successfully.
[16:51:00] + Could not get Work unit data from Work Server
[16:51:00] - Error: Attempt #15 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[17:39:14] + Attempting to get work packet
[17:39:14] - Connecting to assignment server
[17:39:15] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.89.149).
[17:39:15] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[17:39:15] Loaded queue successfully.
[17:39:16] + Could not get Work unit data from Work Server
[17:39:16] - Error: Attempt #16 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.
[18:27:22] + Attempting to get work packet
[18:27:22] - Connecting to assignment server
[18:27:26] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.89.151).
[18:27:26] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[18:27:27] Loaded queue successfully.
[18:48:04] + Could not get Work unit data from Work Server
[18:48:04] - Error: Attempt #17 to get work failed, and no other work to do.
Waiting before retry.

 

[DManeKid]

well it seems that it is actually able to connect and everything... are you sure this happens every time? how long have you be observing it?

sometimes that just happens when a server gets overloaded or is down ^^

 

[Karbon]

this has happened when trying to get a WU the last 5 or so times, it takes 20+ tries to get the WU from the server

 

[Xenocide]

if its on wireless i belive connections are not active unless one is logged in

 

[Karbon]

if its on wireless i belive connections are not active unless one is logged in

just the answer i was looking for, thanks

 

[hrdwrjnkie]

[18:27:22] + Attempting to get work packet
[18:27:22] - Connecting to assignment server
[18:27:26] - Successful: assigned to (171.67.89.151).
[18:27:26] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[18:27:27] Loaded queue successfully.
[18:48:04] + Could not get Work unit data from Work Server
[18:48:04] - Error: Attempt #17 to get work failed, and no other work to do.

Looks like the internet connection is active and that the client is actually connecting to the server, just not getting a WU. I have a winXP lappy (on wireless) that folds 24/7 logged off with no problems, so I think that there may be something else at work here. The log is telling you that is successfully connected to the server (171.67.89.151), but it cannot get a WU. Odd.