Mining using multiple machines Linux/Windows

[lord_rahl]

Hi all, I'm new to this, I have never mined any digital currency before and I'm pretty excited to be starting here.

So here is my situation. I have a Windows server that I just installed my Gold Coin Wallet on and I am using it to mine for GLD and it seems to be working. I would, however, like to use a few other machines that I have available to mine in to the same wallet. I've got Minerd installed on a Linux server on the same network, and I attempt to run the command with parameters pointing to the Windows machine with the wallet on it (matched IP, Port, username,password) but when I run the command it returns a 403 error, like the wallet program is rejecting the connection from my mining rig. Is what I am attempting possible? Can I have more than one machine mining for the same wallet? If so, what is the best way to configure such a setup. Ideally, I'd like to have 4 or 5 Linux servers doing the mining and have the Windows machine collecting whatever the Linux servers come up with. Thanks!

[rch]

Might be a silly question but you are running the QT client with the -server param passed to it, right?

You don't have any firewall restrictions that could be getting in the way?

You said you've set up the U/P so I am assuming you set up the .conf file correctly?

They may seem like no-brainer questions but I've found those simple things the easiest to miss.

[lord_rahl]

OK so I just didn't have the '-server' parameter specified. Now, the Linux miner is displaying messages about the threads, number of hashes and the hash rate so it looks like it's working. On the client, if I hover over the mining icon in the bottom right corner it says "Not Mining Gold Coins," is the client supposed to show the hash rate when the mining is coming from a remote machine or only when it is being processed locally? Can I have multiple mining machines hooked up to the same client? If I wanted to give access to all the machines on my subnet from mining could I change the directive in the .conf file to something like this:

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rpcallowip=192.168.49.0/24
to specify all the machines in the 24 bit (255.255.255.0) subnet?
What would be a good number of threads to run? The current mining machine is a 2CPU Sillicon Mechanics server with 2 Xeon dual core 3GHz CPUs. Can I run the remote miners while simultaneously running the wallet client's miner locally? I know that's a lot of questions, I just want to make sure I am maximizing my resources. Thanks!