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I have two Ubuntu servers in a corporate environment. My plan is to setup a Sawtooth Validator on one machine and Sawtooth Client on the other.

I am able to run both of them on the same machine.

How do I setup a client on another machine and connect it to my current validator setup. Are there any files I need to copy or any docker images to copy or is there any configuration that needs to be done?

All the blogs available online explain the setup of a client and validator on the same machine. I haven't come across any blog explaining the setup on different machines.

Akhil Kintali
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You have your client connect to the REST API on the remote machine. The TCP port for the Sawtooth REST API is 8008. If, for example, your validator node is at IP address 10.0.0.100, you connect to http://10.0.0.100:8008

The REST API URL is specified in your client source code. Many Sawtooth clients have an option to specify the REST API point. For example, the intkey CLI has a --url option, so you would use intkey --url http://10.0.0.100:8008

This assumes there is not a firewall on your host machine (in this example, 10.0.0.100). If there is either disable it or (preferably) open up incoming TCP port 8008.

Dan Anderson
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