Got what might be a dumb question here, but what the hell. I don't know the answer.
I have a standalone miner. It's a HEX16b, if that matters.
If I want to solo mine with it, and don't want to set up a private pool, what's the procedure? There's no way to put it directly to my computer, so I'm assuming it'd need to point at a port or something.
If one of ya could post a step by step guide for this, I'd love ya to the tune of 1000 BNS
Biomech,
I have a setup similar to this, so I think I might be able to help. You need to get either the QT client or the daemon running. Then you need to make sure you properly configure the .conf file. It's location depends on what operating system you're running. On windows, I think it's application support (I don't have a windows machine), OSX it's definitely /Library/Application Support/Bonus, and on linux, it's ~/.bonus. In the conf file you need to put:
port=65000
rpcport=65001
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallow=127.0.0.1
server=1
daemon=1
addnode=bonuscoin.net
addnode=67.231.54.19
addnode=148.251.12.124
Make sure you set the rpcuser and rpcpassword to something secure and pick something you'll remember. The tricky part for me, was figuring out that I needed to set rpcallow to the IP address of my remote device. Everything here is on an internal network, but if you're going to be connecting from external IP addresses, definitely make sure your firewall has port 65001 open too.
After that, just point your miner at the machine running Bonus (i.e. 192.168.XXX.XXX:65001) and it should connect right up. To figure out my rpcallow problems, I used telnet pointed at my daemon to figure out that I wasn't getting a response on 65001 despite the firewall being off. Once I got rpcallow corrected, the port responded like a champ and everything has been working just fine ever since.
Hope that helps.
