Get the Client from distributed.net for your OS
http://www1.distributed.net/download/clients.php
How-To guide here
http://www.distributed.net/docs/tutor_netopt.php
Networking Options
http://www.distributed.net/docs/tutor_netopt.php
Run it the first time and it will ask you some questions and create dnetc.ini
Then edit dnetc.ini (here is a copy of mine)
Code:[parameters] id=YourEmailAddy@MyDomain.com change this to your email addy [misc] project-priority=RC5-72=1, OGRP2=0 this is for RC5 only project-priority=RC5-72=0, OGRP2=1 this is for OGR only [triggers] exit-flag-filename=exit.now pause-on-no-mains-power=no [display] progress-indicator=auto-sense [ogr] core=1 fetch-time-threshold=0 fetch-workunit-threshold=3 [rc5-72] core=-1 fetch-time-threshold=0 fetch-workunit-threshold=0 [processor-usage] priority=3 [networking] autofindkeyserver=no keyserver=www.free-dc.org:2064 <-- This forces your client to get work from Bok's pproxy server nofallback=true dialup-watcher=passive interfaces-to-watch=* disabled=no [buffers] threshold-check-interval=0:30 checkpoint-filename=check.txt frequent-threshold-checks=3 [logging] log-file-limit=500 log-file=dnetc.log log-file-type=fifo