Help, trying to go solo

[xanadu]

I've amassed enough cards to get 2G/hash on my own so it is time to go solo.

I've setup my primary machine with (2) 5870 cards cranking away at 620M/hash quite nicely via poclbm and bitcoin running with the -server option.

Now I am trying to connect another machine to the primary over the local network, I am using the string:
poclbm --u XXX --pass=XXX--host=IP ADDRESS -v -w128 --platform 0 -d 0

No matter how I tweak things (IP address vs. host name, etc) poclbm just returns "Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC"

Both machines are Win7 Ultimate hardwired via gigabit ethernet, I have disabled the Win7 firewall on both machines.

Any suggestions?  I'd really like to get the rest of my GPUs crunching away tonight!

[xenon481]

Sounds like even though you are using the -server option, you may not have your bitcoin.conf file set up properly.

[xanadu]

Sounds like even though you are using the -server option, you may not have your bitcoin.conf file set up properly.

The bitcoin.conf file has just two lines at this time:
rpcuser=XXX
rpcpassword=XXX

Am I missing something crucial to allow network connections?

Thanks!
-X

[xanadu]

Ah! Got it, you sent me down the right path xenon481

I added the line rpcallowip=XXX and after restarting bitcoin the remote clients connected.

Thanks!
-X

[jkminkov]

every now and then I have RPC problems, on 2 rigs, both run Windows XP SP3,

I'm not sure but problems show mostly when a new block is found

I'm trying Win7 x64, no RPC errors for 9 hours but hashrate is 2-3% lower on 5870

Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 19:12:58, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 19:30:02, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 19:38:34, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 20:04:10, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 20:08:26, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 20:25:30, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 20:38:18, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 20:46:50, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 21:12:26, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 21:25:14, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 21:38:02, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 22:20:42, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 22:29:14, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo" shutting down
Running command: poclbm.exe --user=123 --pass=123 -o localhost -p 8332 -d1 --verbose -v -w128 -f 0
Listener for "5770_solo" started
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 23:07:38, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 12/04/2011 23:16:10, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC
Listener for "5770_solo": 13/04/2011 16:58:34, Problems communicating with bitcoin RPC

[theGECK]

In Windows 7, make sure that you can see the file extensions. Otherwise you can wind up with a file that looks like bitcoin.conf, but is really bitcoin.conf.txt. And that doesn't work.

[jkminkov]

under win7 it works fine, gui miner was the problem and I don't use it anymore @ winxp+solo mining