Error "Duplicate name"

guixx24
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Error "Duplicate name"

by guixx24 · · Post #15606

Hello

I have error on 4 miners.

On each miner i have a red point and no text.

Yesterday i have just see error "Duplicate name......"

And text disapair, but error and red point always here.

Can you help please ? Thank

EDIT > i have see the error : This miner attempted to authenticate with a duplicate worker name, so its n= password argument is being ignored.
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AppleMiner
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Re: Error "Duplicate name"

by AppleMiner · · Post #15607

Each miner connecting in needs to have its own unique n= setting to set a name for the mining rigs.
So if you had 4 miners, miner 1 would have n=miner1 in it, miner 2 would have n=miner2, so on.

If you restart, sometimes the miners connect in, and the old miner name is still in use, not disconnected quite yet
Since the name is already being used, it gives that error, and makes a new ID number-name random so it can be trackable.
You still get credit, and the next time you reboot, it should restart back to the correct n= setting for the passwords if you have them all set differently across all your mining rigs.