Connecting to a remote (headless) miner
Connecting to a remote explorer should be as simple as putting your miners url in the built in Remote Miner plugin. However if that remote explorer isnt running on your localhost machine, your browser security will reject the connection. The explorer guide gives 2 options to fix this browser limitation.
1) you can put an ssl cert on your remote server (difficult, costly) 2) disable insecure content for the zkga.me domain (not good security practice in crypto where we really need good security practices).
But those aren't the only solutions!. Instead we can make a remote server look like a local server with a few command lines.
SSH is a way to access remote machines and allows port forwarding. To set this up there are a few simple steps:
SSH is already installed on GNU/Linux. For Windows install your favorite application.
This step is done so that you can ssh into machines without typing commandflags each time. Replace the 192 ip and user with your server.
Here is an example entry:
Host miner
Hostname 192.168.178.132
User user
Port 22
Localforward 8001 localhost:8000
If you have multiple miner copy/paste the entry and then increment the first port number by one
Use
ssh miner to connect to the remote server and forward the port. Notice how miner stands for the ip address in the ~/.ssh/config.Once you drop into the shell start
mimc-fast or whatever remote miner client you're using.The Plugin is called Remote Explorer and is in the official client, but does need one change from the default. Instead the default url
http://0.0.0.0:8000/mine well use http://localhost:8001/mineIf you're sick of typing your password to your server, we can fix that too. On your local machine client generate a key with
ssh-keygenThen copy it over to your miner with
ssh-copy-id miner and type your user password for the last time ever.