Hello, Bit of a problem in checking my wallet balance: the rpc.cert file never got created in the AppData\Local\Dcrwallet folder. Any idea what the cause and fix might be? Thank you.
The cert is only created if the RPC server is started (which means a username and password must have been confiured) and you don't have TLS disabled. Are you running with --notls?
Yes, running the daemon with --notls (thought that's how it should go on Windows). When I try to check my balance, it reports that it cannot find the file specified, which is the rpc.cert which should be in AppData/Local/Dcrwallet. Indeed, it's not there, so I assumed it should have been created at some point during wallet construction.
Ok, that would be why. If you're running with --notls, you have to also tell dcrctl to not use it. dcrctl --wallet --notls ... getbalance Also, for reference, the only reason the guides are setup to use notls is because the current cgminer windows binary doesn't support it. Everything else (dcrd, dcrwallet, dcrctl) supports it properly. The next set of cgminer binaries released will support it too (https://github.com/decred/cgminer/pull/6). At that point, there will be no reason to use --notls anymore.
Perfect, fixed! Thank you dave for the help. Now just to figure out why my mined coins aren't showing up.