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Title: How to connect your light wallet to your own witness node on Windows 64 bit.
Post by: JA on October 15, 2015, 11:22:44 am

https://beyondbitcoin.org/how-to-connect-your-light-wallet-to-your-own-witness-node-on-windows-64-bit/

if i missed something just reply

Title: Re: How to connect your light wallet to your own witness node on Windows 64 bit.
Post by: Thom on October 15, 2015, 01:57:23 pm

Just posted a question related to this here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16781.msg245347.html#msg245347

Do you know the answer? I'm pretty sure the wallet connection would be wss://  vs ws://  for an encrypted connection. Just not sure how to set it up. I'd like to use a self-signed certificate and I'm not sure why the witness config.ini only provides for a single cert file and not both (public / private parts of key).

Title: Re: How to connect your light wallet to your own witness node on Windows 64 bit.
Post by: JA on October 15, 2015, 02:08:37 pm

Quote from: Thom on October 15, 2015, 01:57:23 pm

Just posted a question related to this here: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16781.msg245347.html#msg245347

Do you know the answer? I'm pretty sure the wallet connection would be wss://  vs ws://  for an encrypted connection. Just not sure how to set it up. I'd like to use a self-signed certificate and I'm not sure why the witness config.ini only provides for a single cert file and not both (public / private parts of key).

no sorry this is just for local use.

Title: Re: How to connect your light wallet to your own witness node on Windows 64 bit.
Post by: HeySteve on October 15, 2015, 08:54:40 pm

Thanks for the guide. I'm new to BTS but managed to get it working, as far as I can tell. Any way to check? And do I need to do anything but wait for a day to get added to the active witness list?

A helpful addition to the guide would be the way to open witness_node from the console. I  didn't know so did it through Windows by running the .exe as Administrator, it crashed with an access error otherwise.

Title: Re: How to connect your light wallet to your own witness node on Windows 64 bit.
Post by: JA on October 15, 2015, 09:31:42 pm

Quote from: HeySteve on October 15, 2015, 08:54:40 pm

Thanks for the guide. I'm new to BTS but managed to get it working, as far as I can tell. Any way to check? And do I need to do anything but wait for a day to get added to the active witness list?

A helpful addition to the guide would be the way to open witness_node from the console. I  didn't know so did it through Windows by running the .exe as Administrator, it crashed with an access error otherwise.

Since you are new you probably dont know.

This is a guide on how to connect your light wallet to a witness node that connects to the bitshares network.
This will not make you a witness at all.

Title: Re: How to connect your light wallet to your own witness node on Windows 64 bit.
Post by: JA on October 16, 2015, 10:15:30 am

here is a bach script that will start everything with admin rights.

Code: [Select]

@echo off

:: BatchGotAdmin
:-------------------------------------
REM  --> Check for permissions
>nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"

REM --> If error flag set, we do not have admin.
if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (
    echo Requesting administrative privileges...
    goto UACPrompt
) else ( goto gotAdmin )

:UACPrompt
    echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    set params = %*:"=""
    echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c %~s0 %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"

    "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"
    exit /B

:gotAdmin
    pushd "%CD%"
    CD /D "%~dp0"
:--------------------------------------


cd "C:\Program Files\BitShares 2\bin"
start witness_node.exe

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\BitShares2-light"
start BitShares2-light.exe

exit