Connecting to wallet on LAN

[mistercoin]

I searched google and the forums, but no luck on a way to show me how to use my wallet on the same LAN, but different PC.

I am developing some apps that use altcoin wallets, the wallets I want to use on my windows PC on the same network and I want to 'hook' in to them from my dev machine (linux). The linux box I created for this has low memory, and is better off if I just use it for deploying the server-end of things.

So, does anyone have any ideas how one would go about using a wallet on the same network? Would I just type in the IP of that PC on the network along with the p2p port of the wallet?

[Newar]

I think you are looking for the connect command.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Command-line_arguments  

Most of those you can put in a config file too.


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[deepceleron]

I think you are looking for the connect command.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin#Command-line_arguments  

Most of those you can put in a config file too.

Not at all what he is looking for.

Bitcoin Core-based wallets have a communication mechanism, where commands can be issued to the running client over the network, called RPC (remote procedure call).

You first must turn on the server component of Bitcoin by using server=1 in the config file or as a command line option, and also must set an rpcuser/password. Then in the config file you must allow the correct IP address netmasks for only local machines and networks that are allowed to connect. An example config file with these options individually documented is here: http://we.lovebitco.in/bitcoin-qt/configuration-file/

Once that is on, you can test communications locally by running a second bitcoind to issue commands (which also functions as a simple RPC client), commands like "bitcoind help".

For programmatic access, you can take a look at documents like:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_%28JSON-RPC%29
http://upcoder.com/7/bitcoin-rpc-from-python/