Remote Services

The following steps are provided for running multiple harvesters with a single node, or for separate node / farmer / wallet setups.

To enable remote access to a Node or Farmer:

echo true > config/local/allow_remote

Alternatively, see “Allow remote service access” in GUI Settings.

Remote harvesters need access to port 11333, while remote farmer, timelord and wallet need port 11330.

Remote Harvester

To run a remote harvester:

./run_harvester.sh -n node.ip

Alternatively to set the node address permanently: echo node.ip > config/local/node

Note: To connect to a remote farmer, replace node.ip with the farmer IP.

To disable the built-in harvester in the node: echo false > config/local/harvester

Remote Farmer

To run a remote farmer with it’s own wallet and harvester:

./run_farmer.sh -n node.ip

Alternatively to set the node address permanently: echo node.ip > config/local/node

To disable the built-in farmer in the node: echo false > config/local/farmer
To disable the built-in wallet in the node or farmer: echo false > config/local/wallet
To disable the built-in harvester in the farmer: echo false > config/local/harvester

Remote Timelord

To run a remote timelord:

./run_timelord.sh -n node.ip

Alternatively to set the node address permanently: echo node.ip > config/local/node

To disable the built-in timelord in the node: echo false > config/local/timelord

Remote Wallet

To run a remote wallet:

./run_wallet.sh -n node.ip

Alternatively to set the node address permanently: echo node.ip > config/local/node

To disable the built-in wallet in the node: echo false > config/local/wallet

Remote connections over public networks

To use the remote services over a public network such the internet you should use an SSH tunnel, instead of opening port 11330 or 11333 to the world (which would hurt security).

To run an SSH tunnel to connect to a node from another machine (such as from a remote farmer):

ssh -N -L 11330:localhost:11330 user@node.ip

This will forward local port 11330 to port 11330 on the node’s machine.