Emerald-EMD question

[NiNHalo3]

Hey all.  First post here, new to mining.  I am interested in mining some EMD on my gaming system as they have a fast blocktime and a decent reward for completed block.  I have set up GUIMiner and intend to pool with scryptmining.  I have set up an account with them as well as set up my worker, which I made exact same as my username.  Using GUIMiner (because it seems easier to use than other code based mining software) I entered in the URL (without http), port, username and pass and it is saying after a brief moment that "No servers can be used!  Exiting...".  When I tried entering in the same information on the emerald client, I got this message: "Miner failed to start.  Make sure you have the minerd executable and libraries in the same directory as Emerald-Qt."  I have absolutely no idea what that means, to be honest, and instead of getting frustrated about it I thought I'd post here and see if someone can assist.   I'm sure it's something simple, but being new this is all foreign to me.

I'd appreciate it if someone could maybe post the link to this thread in the Emerald thread too since I can't post there.  The link to that thread is as follows:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=235870.0

Thanks 'erryone.


p.s. step by step would be useful instead of "add this to that and drop it into x file and it'll work." 

NiN

[ctan75]

same issue here.  spent a good 2-3 hours getting the client to sync.  only to tell me that no servers can be used on solo mining.

[Wilhelm]

If you can sync to the blockchain you can solo mine. You connect to yourself to solomine. I've done emerald for quite a while.

Tips for solomining

1. Is your client in sync? If yes go to 2
2. Have you setup your emerald.conf file?
3. Restart your qt client with " -server" argument added
4. Use the RPC user and pass to connect to your localhost to mine solo.

My emerald.conf located in C:\Users\<yourusernamegoeshere>\AppData\Roaming\Emerald

listen=1
daemon=1
server=1
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcport=12128
addnode=198.199.90.252
addnode=24.6.21.198
addnode=108.27.249.69

Brotip: Use cgminer 3.7.2

cgminer --scrypt -o http://localhost:12128 -u username -p password <other parameters>


Hope this helps!