My concern was not GR publishing device information by their network names. My corcern is that I did not want GR to have the host names, just the device ID as what the projects know such as 1223456, using the <suppress_net_info>1</suppress_net_info> line in the cc_config.xml.

Anyway, now understanding what is happening, coming some bug or feature to light. Changing the flag setting of the suppress, then doing a project update and synching instantaneously made a listed retired device pick up the credit of the live device going by the same name and a line remaining at top of the My Computers without a device name that holds the sum of the credit for both the retired and remaining live devices, tallying to the total credit shown on My Projects. In effect the My Computers always showed the total credit, but not any device name associated with it. I'm sure you can look in my account details to see what I mean. Boils down to GR in present setup not picking up Device ID's just device names. I can live with that.

So for the other readers I have on My Computers:

Line 1, no device name but with credit total of all devices live and retired, less line 2/3. It's listed as the oldest BOINC install ever created:

                                                                                     

Created: 17 Apr 2006 12:57 / Last Updated: 14 Aug 2009 04:38	857465.29

Line 2, a long retired device, no credit (before the days of the network suppress feature)

Line 3, the device summing the credit of a retired and a live host who happen to have the same host name.

I've switched back to suppress network info for all devices, except the My Computers list now refuses to forget what it learned during the test.

ttyl

...

This part is very functional. Visit your My Account section for the different bits which you can get to from the front page http://www.gridrepublic.org/index.php?page=home There 's nothing there for teams. Resigning from them you have to do at project level and obviously, before deleting the GR agent or BOINC, detach client from the Account Manager in the client....

Have looked where this may have been coming from, a random date of birth I've entered somewhere sometime maybe, but the profile says: Joined: 12/31/69 ...

To add, absent an answer from WCG, that BAM knows my devices are hidden, but does show them in the user account when signed in, all and under their worldly names. Opposed, here they don't though the one device continues to be attached to GR.

There was a comment by knreed that the former "verification code" used to allow 3rd parties to query stats details now also double acts as the BOINC weak account key. The CPID being public, would GR need a field to enter this in the profile to facilitate? Again BAM seemingly does not.

Still in the quest to understand, my GR account password is NOT the same as the WCG password. Is that maybe needed since the verification code is derived off the user id/passwordcombination.

...

Practically, think the quickest way is to make a few changes in your account profile:

1. Change the email address to something like boss@gridrepublic.org or other nonsense.

2. Change the user id to total garble.

3. Retire from team if such a thing exists here?

4. Change the password. Write a random series of numbers down on paper, enter that as password twice, save, then exit GR. Throw piece of paper away and nobody will see you again in any statistics.

...

I'm exchanging with knreed of WCG how it is that decomissioned full name devices appear here yet not the specific device that I've attached to GR as the AMS. I'm using the <suppress_net_info>1</suppress_net_info> in the cc_config.xml of all hosts, no single project having issue with that other than being unable to re-identify a host that had a re-installation. ...

Strangely, the WCG & sub-project picks I did here disappeared, so did that again. The situation after doing another sync in the client and a refresh here in the pMy computer rofile My computer now show my current overall WCG account credit and 2 devices I recognise, [with zero credit ] , though I've only attached 1 device to the GR account and kept the devices in the profile as hidden. I'm really curious where that 2nd computer info data was scraped from. The only place I can think of the BOINCstats, where I did a private profile and where I attached this device (they show this device hidden , not publicly visible). Pulling this from WCG... if so, I'll speak to the techs there and rather odd too, because my clients are configured to hide the network ID data and only send the WCG device ID. No device names....

Though I've successfully attached classic BOINC to GR as account manager (the documentation here said that perfectly fine) and did synchro, nothing is happening here or at the project site profile, so went to look for that GR Download page. It says 5.10.30, where at the Berkeley forum change log it says that 6.8.14 is out with all the bells and wistles.

A GR page advertises as a screensaver project (similar to old UD Screenssaver, Lifesaver), but is that still a proper or is it just to indicate that the client by default will only run when the screensaver has kicked in / the system has been idle for X minutes?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Edit: sorry, 6.8.15 is now the latest (alpha I suppose).

...