Not able to connect to other node from the admin node

Question

Hi,

I have successfully installed multi chain setup on my windows machine. I created one admin node using the Multichain create command and started it using the multichaind chainname -daemon command .

The issue here is : I am not able to connect to the other node from my admin node :

I tried opening another command prompt , and tried multichaind newchain@ipaddress:port but it is giving me an error Couldn't retrieve blockchain parameters from the seed node "Seed Node's IP Address".

Can anyone help on this issue?

Comments

Hi,

I have the Multi chain setup done on my windows machine. Wanted to install Multi chain Explorer on my windows.

Can you please help me on this ?

Answer 1

You should try to use a different data directory for your second node, if you are running it on the same machine.

Otherwise it uses by default the same data-dir as the first node, but the filder called "newchain" does already exists here.

 

This is done with the parameter --datadir, that you should use on every multichain-command of the second node.

 

That was the problem I had.

Maybe that already helps? Also check that you use different rpc and p2p ports since otherwise I think they are going to use the same ports.

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So how can I set the datadir variable ?

Also as of now , whenever I am creating any new multichain node , its folder is formed in C:/users/username/AppData/Roaming/multichain

What are the stpes which i can follow for changing the data-dir for new node ?

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As I said: use the parameter --datadir=<customdir> on each command for the second node.

EDIT:
Sorry, correct is "command line flag", not "parameter".

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Thanks for your help ! The solution worked for me .