It is still not working. I start from a fresh 'install' of mprime. I go through the setup steps, put in my username/password when prompted (the one i created on the v5 web page). On the web-page i have selected to use the LMH trial factoring work preference. When prompted what work type to use i select "whatever makes sense" (I've also tried selecting "trial factoring"). mprime then contacts the server and says the following:

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Your choice: [Main thread May 1 19:13] Starting worker thread.
[Work thread May 1 19:13] Work thread starting
[Work thread May 1 19:13] No work to do at the present time. Waiting.
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] Updating computer information on the server
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] URL: http://mersenne.org/cgi-bin/pnHttp.exe?uu&4&232&4&27045&17443&peterzal&*****&&&&&&0
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] RESPONSE:
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] pnResult=5
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] PrimeNet error 9: Access denied
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] A new userID and password will be generated.
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] URL: http://mersenne.org/cgi-bin/pnHttp.exe?mi&4&54&4&6617&61097&&&&11&1837&24
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] RESPONSE:
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] pnResult=5
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] PrimeNet error 9: Access denied
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] A new userID and password will be generated.
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] Visit http://mersenneforum.org for help.
[Comm thread May 1 19:13] Will try contacting server again in 70 minutes.
[Main thread May 1 19:14] Stopping all worker threads.
[Work thread May 1 19:14] Resuming.
[Work thread May 1 19:14] Work thread stopped.
[Main thread May 1 19:14] Execution halted.
[Main thread May 1 19:14] Choose Test/Continue to restart.
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I blanked out my password with **** in that output. So i restart the program and then it starts getting LL tests. After I edit the prime.txt file to add the Usev4=0 code it still doesnt work. Thats probably because its using the randomly created user/pass.

I'm so lost now. Can someone give step by step instructions on how to do this?

Make sure UseV4=0 appears before the [PrimeNet] section.

Sorry for not making that clear.

Its giving me trial factoring work to do now, in the 69M range. Is there any way I can get work in the higher ranges (> 100M ), because i only have a 32-bit processor and the factoring in the 69M range is at 66+ bits already.

choose "trial factoring to low limits" as your work preference

1/3 of the uncharted [B]Mp[/B] divide by ([B]2kp+1)[/B] where k<150. ... well, 6% divide simply by ([B]2p+1). [/B]It's not even funny to send these out and load them back in the database. But look [URL]http://v5www.mersenne.org/report_recent_cleared/[/URL]

Maybe these could be removed on the database level all the way to 1B?
It would save an unbelievable amount of network traffic (or your valuable loading time).

PL-SQL, anyone? just a suggestion...

you've already told me that. there is no "factoring to low limits" option, only the LMH option (which S485122 confirmed as being the correct option to choose) and i have selected TF-LMH - trial factoring LMH (screen for not-prime, assigned as factoring) as the default work type on my account (peterzal). If i set a worktype of "2 - trial factoring" in the client i get assignments in the 69M range for trial factoring (this looks to me like LMH work, but at low M's). If i select "0 do whatever makes sense" in the client it gives me double checks. So maybe my client is not correctly linking to my v5 preferences ? Here are the files that are created by the client as part of the setup procedure (maybe this will help somehow)

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V24OptionsConverted=1
SendAllFactorData=1
StressTester=0
UsePrimenet=1
DialUp=0
UserID=
UserPwd=
AskedAboutMemory=1
UseV4=0
V5UserID=ANONYMOUS
WorkPreference=0
[PrimeNet]
Debug=1
ProxyHost=
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[code]
OldCpuSpeed=1838
ComputerGUID=c2533c05239d26eba2743349753a26df
DayMemory=256
NightMemory=256
DayStartTime=450
DayEndTime=1410
Affinity=100
ThreadsPerTest=1
Pid=0
SrvrUID=ANONYMOUS
ComputerID=
SrvrComputerName=
SrvrPO1=0
SrvrPO2=1
SrvrPO3=5
SrvrPO4=256
SrvrPO5=256
SrvrPO6=450
SrvrPO7=1410
SrvrPO8=1
SrvrPO9=1
SrvrP00=2
LastEndDatesSent=1209686072
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WorkPreference should be 1

ok finally. it works now. thank you for all the help.

one more thing, i promise :). Currently all my returned results get credited to ANONYMOUS. how can i give credit to my username (peterzal) ? I've changed all the fields that point to ANONYMOUS in the prime.txt and local.txt files but it didnt work.

I think you need to check them out under your login. If you checked them out without logging in then anonymous gets credit for them upon return. I could be wrong, though.

In local.txt change:

SrvrUID=ANONYMOUS
ComputerID=
SrvrComputerName=

to:

SrvrUID=your username
ComputerID=your name for that computer
SrvrComputerName=your name for that computer