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Title: Mining on external computer? Post by: Xtra_Coin on June 04, 2011, 11:46:43 AM Hi,
I'm currently wondering if the following is possible: I have 2 computers A and B. Can I run a mining program on computer A and tell it to do the calculations on computer B? I.e. running a mining program on computer B without installing it. Edit: If it is possible, would it even work if computer A runs with Windows and B with a Unix distribution? Thanks in advance! Best regards, X.C. Title: Re: Mining on external computer? Post by: Inaba on June 04, 2011, 12:14:51 PM No and no is pretty much the answer.
Title: Re: Mining on external computer? Post by: Jack of Diamonds on June 04, 2011, 12:58:09 PM Remote desktop.
But it wont obv. work if the program doesn't exist on the other machine. Title: Re: Mining on external computer? Post by: supa on June 04, 2011, 10:18:33 PM Kind of and sort-of-ish.
You can certainly install (for most miners - this is just copying the .exe) on computer A. You can then run that program from computer B using Windows file sharing or Linux file sharing (CIFS/SMB/NFS). Example: From Computer B: \\computerA\c$\bitcoin\poclbm.exe --<my args go here> For all intents and purposes, poclbm.exe is "installed" on computer A but being run from computer B. poclbm.exe is not the best example here, though - it has quite a few supporting files that are required. This method will probably not work with poclbm, but will work with ufasoft's miner or something similar. For poclbm, you would need to map a network drive on computer B like this: net use Z: \\computerA\c$\bitcoin\ Z: poclbm.exe <my args here> |