I think I made some progress here but still error messages. I was looking at the bitcoin-qt windows server debug.log and ran into the following entry-
WARNING: option -rpcallowip was specified without -rpcbind; this doesn't usually make sense
So I googled and ran across an alternate bitcoin.conf with the addition of rpcbind which I tried.
server=1
listen=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=tom11011
rpcpassword=openup11
rpcbind=127.0.0.1
rpcbind=192.168.0.198
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=192.168.0.0/24
rpcport=8332
From a remote linux computer I ran the following against my windows bitcoin-qt computer.
./cgminer -o
http://192.168.0.198:8332 -u tom -p secret --btc-address XXXXX
I am definitely seeing something new now.
[1970-01-05 14:36:37.723] Started cgminer 4.11.1
[1970-01-05 14:36:37.723] Probing for an alive pool
[1970-01-05 14:36:39.523] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:39.523] Block change for http://192.168.0.198:8332 detection via getblockcount polling
[1970-01-05 14:36:39.531] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:40.328] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:40.335] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:41.059] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:41.067] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:42.042] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:42.049] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:42.755] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:42.762] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:43.451] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:43.459] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:44.179] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:44.186] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:45.013] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:45.052] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:45.554] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:45.905] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:45.912] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:46.636] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:46.652] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
[1970-01-05 14:36:47.370] Pool 0 JSON failed to decode GBT
[1970-01-05 14:36:47.378] Block height change to 676707 detected on pool 0
^C [1970-01-05 14:36:47.627] Shutdown signal received.
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.185] Started at
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.185] Pool: http://192.168.0.198:8332
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.185] Runtime: 110 hrs : 35 mins : 43 secs
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Average hashrate: 0.0 Mhash/s
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Solved blocks: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Best share difficulty: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Share submissions: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Accepted shares: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Rejected shares: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Accepted difficulty shares: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Rejected difficulty shares: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Hardware errors: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Utility (accepted shares / min): 0.00/min
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Work Utility (diff1 shares solved / min): 0.00/min
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Stale submissions discarded due to new blocks: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Unable to get work from server occasions: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Work items generated locally: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Submitting work remotely delay occasions: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] New blocks detected on network: 0
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186] Summary of per device statistics:
[1970-01-05 14:35:43.186]
not sure why the time date shows weird
root@server1:/usr/src/cgminer# date
Sun 28 Mar 2021 02:33:32 PM UTC