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

[Thomas D Uram]

/how/ does it not work?



Am Aug 22, 2011 um 1:37 AM schrieb Jason Bell <j.bell at cqu.edu.au>:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Bug has been logged via bugzilla (Bug 1975).
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> There is a work around, which is to edit the following text file manually:
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> Windows XP:     C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\AccessGrid3\Caches
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> Windows 7:        C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\AccessGrid3\Caches
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> and manually edit the bridges file (using wordpad is fine).
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> 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:
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> [82664eb260b41608a24968d14787fc3a]
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> status = Enabled
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> name = APAG
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> portMax = 52000
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> serverType = QuickBridge
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> rank = 0.0320000648499
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> host = vv3.ap-accessgrid.org
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> portMin = 50000
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> userRank = 3.0
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> port = 20000
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> description =
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> I have documented this work around at http://www.accessgrid.org/node/2566
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> Hope this helps others.
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> Regards,
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> Jason.
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