Hey,

I\'ve asked questions about this before but didn\'t really get much help, but i\'m still having problems with it.

I get this message all the time
7/16/2008 10:49:47 PM|World Community Grid|Message from server: Invalid or missing account key. Visit this project\'s web site to get an account key.
7/16/2008 10:49:47 PM|World Community Grid|Deferring communication for 1 hr 0 min 0 sec

I have this a lot, and my client seems to have stalled. I thought it may have been because i had been running this old project that was overdue so i aborted that project and started another. But now i\'m getting those same messages again.

My client seems like it needs the account key, i can see it plain as day on the \"your account\" page on the left of climateprediction.net but there is no where in the bionic client to place this key. The time remaining on my client keeps ticking upwards so something is a miss?

can anyone help me resolve this issue?

thanks in advance

orfeo

As was explained before, the account key is not entered into the BOINC Manager anywhere. The account key is used to log into a project\'s Web site. The \'Your account\' button on the Projects tab of BOINC Manager provides a link to the project Web site but the site itself is nothing to do with BOINC Manager - it is hosted by the project (CPDN, SETI etc.). In fact, there is no need to be logged into the project\'s Web site when running BOINC at all.

As was also explained, the overdue messages are not relevant to CPDN - so aborting the task will have achieved nothing.

From the messages you post, the problem is with World Community Grid. Perhaps that is the place to ask for help.

(Or you could complete/abandon all your WCG tasks, detach from WCG, and re-attach.)

[Edit: That does actually seem to be their advice - FAQ - BOINC: Message from server: Invalid or missing account key]