Topic: solo minnen met mac (Read 1847 times)

maar wat je boven schrijft is een windows voorbeeld?

ik heb wel is met mijn mac bij een minning pool gezeten (1 week) en het is inderdaad geen goed idee om met een mac te minnen...
heb wel een aardige macbook (kan veel hebben) maar je moet je laptop wel schuinzetten (iets onder zetten) om zo de koeling beter te houden. (ook al is die van een mac wel heel goed)

maarja ik raad het niemand aan (ik zou trouwens niet weten of het wel of niet rendabel is (maar dat even terzijde)
ik ben gewoon benieuwd hoe dat met een mac gaat. stel je voor ik zou ooit voor 2000 euro apprateur kopen. dan sluit ik die aan op mijn mac (en hoe kan je dan solo minnen.


zou toch mogelijk moeten zijn?

Step 1. Download a Wallet application and set it up normally with an address.  Every coin has a nice Introduction webpage instructing you on how to download their wallet, and how to set it up.  Make sure to Encrypt it!
 
Step 2. Close the Wallet app, and edit the conf file.  The default location is in the C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\[Wallet_name]\ directory.  For example:
 
C:\Users\Eric\AppData\Roaming\Digitalcoin\digitalcoin.conf
 
It should be there already.  If not, you may want to grab the one that was included in the ZIP file of your wallet. b If there wasn't one included with your Wallet (e.g. 66 Coin), then  you can just create one called "Wallet executable".exe.  For example, for 66 Coin, call it:
 
Digitalcoin.exe's config file is: digitalcoin.conf
66.exe's config file is: 66.conf
 
Do note that the config file MUST be in the directory listed above in the Roaming part.  That's the only place it is read from.  Technically, newer versions/distros of these wallet apps will let you change this location.  I don't support this in this How To as that is an advanced topic using command line parameters.
 
Step 3. Enter these values in that conf file.  Make sure they only appear once.  Do not delete anything already in the conf file:
 
listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=james
rpcpassword=dean
rpcport=3333
rpcconnect=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=172.16.*.*
 
rpcuser and rpcpassword can be anything.  Do note that it is transmitted over clear text over your local network.  So don't use something too cryptik.  Heck, if someone does guess your username/password, why not let them mine coins for you!  
 
rcpallowip isn't really needed from what I read, but I put mine there anyways with my IP mask.  I do plan on using more machines to connect to it (making sure the firewall port is open for 3333).
 
I think rpcconnect is the IP address to bind to.  I'm guessing, and I'll find out later when I try to use multiple machines.  If so, then you want to set this to your actual IP address.  Or, I think you can even omit the entire rpcconnect and it may bind to all IPs (I think that's what I read in the readme).  I only have it as that's what everyone else had.
 
Step 4. Create a new shortcut to your Wallet application executable.  You can right-click on digitalcoin.exe, select Send To, and click Desktop (shortcut).  This creates a shortcut on your desktop (in which you can add to your Taskbar (Win7/8) and Start Menu (Win8) later by right-clicking that shortcut on your desktop).  Name this shortcut "Digitalcoin (Server)"
 
You need to right-click that shortcut on your desktop, goto Properties, and at the end of the TARGET, you need to enter -server.  Like this:
 
"C:\Users\Eric\Google Drive\Program Files\Digitalcoin\digitalcoin-qt.exe" -server
 
^- Note, your application will be unzipped to a different directly.  This is specific to my machine, where I use Google Drive to share "portable" apps so I don't have to frack with setting them up multiple times across different machines.  This is NOT my AppData\Roaming folder either!
 
^- Note 2 that I originally had the digitalcoin.conf file here, at this location.  It didn't seem to be read or found.  I had to move it to the AppData\Roaming\digitalcoin\ folder for it to be seen!  You'll get the error as well if it is not there.
 
Step 5. Double-click the "Digitalcoin (Server)" shortcut, and let the Wallet open.  With the -server parameter, it must read the conf file - in which it will tell you if there are any errors.  Now, sit back and let the blocks sync before continuing.  I let it sync overnight, as I mined more Dogecoins in the fast-pool I was using.
 
Step 6. Last, but NOT least: change your miner(s) to point to your new Wallet!  If on the same machine, using cudaminer, that command line would look like:
 
C:\cudaminer-2013-12-18\x86\cudaminer -d 0,1 -i 0,0 -m 1,1 -l T14x30,T14x30 -H 1 -o localhost:3333 -O james:dean 2>> logfile.txt
 
^- that is the exact line I am running with my Titans.  You can ignore the options, and focus only on the -o and -O parts.
 
^- note, you may want to start logging your output.  You can do this with cudaminer with "2>> filename.txt".  Make sure the "2" is there next to the 2>>.  The author of cudaminer does some weird piping of printf and requires this type of redirect.
 
If you are using cgminer or alike, just change the stratum+tcp://host-name.com to "localhost:3333", that's all.  If it doesn't connect, try tcp or http like stratum+tcp://localhost:3333 or stratum+http://localhost:3333.  I haven't got my ATI machines up yet so I haven't used cgminer yet to know.