client registration?

[bill]

I thought I had registered all my clients (66), kinda painful since this involves
a browser launch, a form submission (type in email addr), and a submit.

After awhile I noticed no stats accumulating. Turns out I had to register them again. Is the registration per client (as long as the client is in the same directory)? Is the registration per run of the client? Or maybe per 200DP?

So I reregistered everything and my stats went from 2,500 or so to 18,239. What is strange is that each client is in a directory with a sym link to md5_preset.xml which has:


<md5crackPreset>
<proxy></proxy>
<address>bill@myaddr</address>
</md5crackPreset>


I figured that would auto register any work done.

[jlcooke]

it should have auto registerd before any work was done.

The client should:
- at start up check for a md5_preset.xml file
- if it had problems parsing this file, it'll note it in md5_gui.log
- it tests each core for performance and correctness
- then generates startpoint, saves them to md5_user.xml and attempts to upload them automatically.
- if this fails, it will be noted in the md5_gui.log file
- it them proceeds to so it's work. Once 200DPs are found, they are uploaded. And the client will return to searching.

Hope this helps. The registration is per-client instance. Not per run or per 200DP (work unit).