Unable to connect nodes

Question

Hi. I am new to MultiChain and not able to get started. Please help.

I am on Windows.

As per the tutorial, I created and started the first node with multichaind chain1 -daemon. Then I created and started a second node on the same machine using multichaind chain2 -daemon. Both nodes up and running. But when I connect node 2 to node 1 using multichaind chain1@10.200.208.39:7751 -daemon, I get this error. Please help: .

IO error: C:\Users\xxxxxxx\AppData\Roaming\MultiChain\chain1\permissions.db\MANIFEST-000017: The handle is invalid.

ERROR: Couldn't initialize permission database for blockchain chain1. Probably multichaind for this blockchain is already running. Exiting...

 

 

 

Answer 1

If you want to run two nodes on the same computer, you need to use the datadir runtime parameter to ensure they are running with separate data directories.

https://www.multichain.com/developers/runtime-parameters/

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