[AG-DEV] Unicast bridge enable bug for windows!

[Jason Bell]

Hi Guys



I have stumbled across a bug for windows users of the Access Grid (3.2) software - which has been confirmed on Windows XP and 7.



Windows users are unable to enable a Unicast Bridge that is currently listed as "disabled".  Normally you would (this works for Mac and Linux) open up Tools -> Preferences -> Bridging, select a bridge, right click on the "disable" text and select enable.  This doesn't work on either Windows XP or Windows 7.



Bug has been logged via bugzilla (Bug 1975<https://bugzilla.mcs.anl.gov/accessgrid/show_bug.cgi?id=1975>).



There is a work around, which is to edit the following text file manually:



Windows XP:     C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\AccessGrid3\Caches

Windows 7:        C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\AccessGrid3\Caches



and manually edit the bridges file (using wordpad is fine).



Simply locate the desired bridges, based upon "name" and change the status to "Enabled".  Save the file and these bridges should then be listed.  An example is listed below:



[82664eb260b41608a24968d14787fc3a]

status = Enabled

name = APAG

portMax = 52000

serverType = QuickBridge

rank = 0.0320000648499

host = vv3.ap-accessgrid.org

portMin = 50000

userRank = 3.0

port = 20000

description =



I have documented this work around at http://www.accessgrid.org/node/2566



Hope this helps others.



Regards,

Jason.



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