.local access to bitcoin core?

[caen44]

HI All.
I am brand new to start9. After installing the OS and bitcoin core, I’d now like to it from various wallets.

However, I’m not sure how to proceed. I did find these threads, but from nearly 2 years ago and the method looks a little beyond my capabilities:

Is there a way I can connect to my node (bitcoind, electrs) directly from my LAN?

I have a full node running, but the only way I can connect my Electrum wallet to it is if I use TOR… Is there a way to allow access to the services from LAN clients?

And

How To - Exposing electrs and bitcoind over LAN in StartOS 0.3

Until this functionality is included in StartOS (It’s coming, afaik), I used the following to expose Electrs and bitcoind to my LAN: Login to StartOS over SSH and switch to the root user: sudo -i Run the following command to switch to the “chrooted” environment, any system changes made now will be persisted across reboots. /usr/lib/startos/scripts/chroot-and-upgrade Paste the following, this will install ‘socat’ and two new systemd services responsible for port forwarding 50001 (electr…

Under “interfaces” I see a .local address (like the tor address, but with .local)
I see the something similar (LAN quick connect) under “properties”.

I’ve tried to connect with Ledger wallet (crap I know, but that’s how I got started), using the .local address, or the IP of my start9 server, but there is no response at all from the server end. I will try Sparrow and see I guess, but I’d like to use the bitcoin core service for everything now that I have it locally.

I am still waiting for Electrs to sync, but I don’t see any way to connect to that without TOR.

Anyway, Id rather not have to run TOR on my desktop MAC just to connect to a server on my local network. Is there any updates on how to do this since the threads I quoted?

Thank you!

[samthelion17]

You need to follow the instructions provided here: How To - Exposing electrs and bitcoind over LAN in StartOS 0.3

If you don’t know how to login to your server via SSH let us know so we can get you started on that, and then you’ll be able to follow the instructions.

[caen44]

Yep, I did figure out how to get in by SSH, so I am good there. Hardest part was figuring out how to make the SSH keys on my Mac and then find them (they don’t end up where the ssh keygen command says they are)

I did find that post but found it a bit intimidating and was hoping for a less scary way. But I’ll give it a try. I’ll let the Electrs finishing syncing and see if i can connect by TOR first from a Tails Linux system (should be easy right?). All goes well and I’ll try to run what is in that post you linked.

Hopefully I don’t break anything! Syncing Bitcoin core took a LONG time.

I’ll report back here whether it works or if I have trouble.

Thanks!

[caen44]

Works perfectly! Thank you.

Missed the :t at the end of the address line for electrum, but works fine when I figured it out. Strongly recommend others start electrum from the command line with the <electrum.appdata> -1 -s :50001:t instead of starting it by clicking on the Electrum App. Then you won’t make the mistake I made of starting electrum and opening the wallet file containing the addresses that you DON’T want untrusted electrum servers to link to each other, thus defeating the entire reason you set up a Start9 sever in the first place. Or just make a new throw away wallet so you can configure and test with the Electrum UI.

Also, I was able to link my Ledger wallet to the Start9 bitcoin server once the local address were exposed. Works great.

Thanks again!