sorry; where is my bitcoin.conf file located? i don't think its a firewall issue because i was able to mine in a pool without any problems. i have put bitcoin.exe as an exception to my firewall as well. i read that i am supposed to "download all the blocks" how does this happen? i'm very new to all of this ~

I did all of these steps :
Start GUIMiner.


Set Bitcoin client path
( Solo Utilites - Set Bitcoin client path)
Now GUIMiner aware of bitcoin client whereabouts.

If you never opened your bitcoin.conf and did not created user/password in it:
Set Bitcoin pass
( Solo Utilites - Create solo password)
Enter username and password.
GUIMiner will add them in bitcoin.conf

Now launch Bitcoin with server options
You cant launch it, if client already running.
If your client already running with -server flag, you can skip that step.

(Solo Utilites - Launch Bitcoin client as server)

Time to create new miner
(File - New Opencl miner  or New other miner)



Server - Chose Solo from dropbox.

Enter your username and pass, created in solo utilites section (or if you already have user\password  in bitcoin.conf - use them)

Choose device and fill Extra flags field with options if needed.


Click Start.

and it says "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC"
im using bitcoin version .4 and am using a gtx 580 with no extra flags.

any insight on this problem?