There are lots of guides out there for beginners, but I don't need all the gubbins, just the steps, and some explanation about options. So here is a simple guide.
(also posted here: https://medium.com/@mattfink/smartcash-node-short-setup-guide-4798bb86e6c6)
smartnode genkey and note down the smartnode's private keysmartnode outputs (likely to be 0 for your first node)smartnode.conf file in your local wallet (~/Library/Application\ Support/Smartcash/ on a Mac) and add a line with smartnode name ip:port smartnode private key transaction id output indexwget https://rawgit.com/smartcash/smartnode/master/install.sh
chomod +x install.sh && ./install.sh
smartcash-cli smartnode status to verify you are setup, and smartcash-cli getinfo to watch the block-count go up (tip: use the getinfo wallet console command to see the current block)Start Alias button on SmartNodes tab.Quit the SmartCash wallet (from the menu, so it's a clean exit).
Find your smartcash.conf file (or create it, if it does not exist).
For Mac this is usually here:
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Smartcash/
cat "txindex=1" >> smartcash.conf
There is no need to set rpcuser and rpcpassword.
NOTE: Setting txindex=1 forces the wallet to maintain all transaction history details. - This may not be entirely needed for the local wallet.
Start the wallet, and wait for the blockchain to sync.. may take a long time, so speed it up with the optional step below.
Because we are now tracking all history, we will need to update our blockchain, speed this up by downloading a copy manually (so long as you trust it).
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Smartcash/
curl -L0 http://proteanx.com/txindexstrap.zip > txindexstrap.zip
Then unzip it
unzip txindexstrap.zip
... stuff happens
rm txindexstrap.zip
Start the wallet. Wait for it to fully sync ... may take some time
Open or create a smartnode.conf file
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Smartcash/
nano smartnode.conf
An empty one should look something like
# Smartnode config file
# Format: alias IP:port smartnodeprivkey collateral_output_txid collateral_output_index
We will use this to send 10,000 SMART to, so that we can get a transaction ID to prove that we can run a node.
Send 10,000 smart to that address
Open the debug window from the desktop wallet, and run smartnode genkey. This will give you a private key to use for the server.
Then get the transaction id and output index for the 10,000 smart transaction
smartnode outputs
Add all of that into your smartnode.conf file, so it becomes:
# Smartnode config file
# Format: alias IP:port smartnodeprivkey collateral_output_txid collateral_output_index
smartnode-name 127.0.0.1:9678 7Q2.... 22e.... 0
Make sure your Ubuntu server is up to date apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade (this actually gets run by the following script, but no harm in doing it now.)
Get the handy bash install all in one script - be sure you are happy with it's security before running it.
Don't try to be clever, and make a fancy user, it's hard-coded for root user and puts stuff in /root/smartcash and /root/.smartcash, which is then used in some cronjobs that look for ~/smartcash/xxx.sh.
wget https://rawgit.com/smartcash/smartnode/master/install.sh
make it executable. Run it, as root, or with sudo.
chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh
It will reboot after it's finished… then hopefully you will have some magic happening.
Keep waiting…
Wait a little longer… (it took around 4–6 hours for mine to sync fully to ~52k blocks)
or, do the same trick to bootstrap the blockchain in step 1a.
cd ~/.smartcash/
curl -L0 http://proteanx.com/txindexstrap.zip > txindexstrap.zip
tar xvf txindexstrap.zip
Open the SmartNodes, My SmartNodes tab, select your newly minted node, and click "Start Alias".
Note: If you do this before you have fully synced, you will see a status of PRE_ENABLED . I also found that I had to Start Alias again once the node had synced, to get it to turn from PRE_ENABLED to ENABLED.