I've just got my self set up with GUIminer but I seem to have a problem. I've got my account setup on bitcoins.cz and Ive got it linked to my Mybitcoin account and I have assigned a worker.

I can start up GUIminer and start solo mining with absolutely no problems but when I try to join a pool I get the message "problems communicating with bitcoin rpc"

I have a bitcoin.conf file created with all the rpcusername=, rpcpassword= and rpcallowip= all setup.

Port 8332 is open and both bitcoin and guiminer are allowed through my firewall. Any kind of spyware or peerblock is currently disabled while I try figure this out.

I have tried every pool I can in the list in guiminer apart from the ones where you have to sign up. I've no problem signing up to a pool but I just figured it would be a waste of time untill I can sort this problem out. There a few you dont have to sign up for and I cant connect to any of them.

Any thoughts?

I'm still not exactly sure what I do and dont need to for each specific scenario but I thought I'd just try cover every base.

It seems to be working now. I left it trying to connect while I wrote this thread and did some more research and after about 10-15 mins it just connected?!

Anyone any thoughts on why it would do this?

Thank you for you response but it seems to be working fine now.