Yea I got that. You have to run tahoe inside the introducer. 
C:/allmydatatahoe182/bin/Tahoe start ../Introducer ( just what I named it. 
Then run tahoe start. 

Regards,
Brandon

On Jul 18, 2011, at 13:33, Josh Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Brandon Meskimen 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm a little confused on the directions to run Tahoe LAFS. 
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/running.html
> 
> To construct a client node, run "tahoe create-client", which will create 
> ~/.tahoe to be the node's base directory. Acquire a copy of the 
> introducer.furlfrom the introducer and put it into this directory, then use 
> "tahoe run". After that, the node should be off and running. The first thing 
> it will do is connect to the introducer and get itself connected to all other 
> nodes on the grid. By default, "tahoe create-client" creates a client-only 
> node, that does not offer its disk space to other nodes. To configure other 
> behavior, use "tahoe create-node" or see configuration.rst.
> 
> This is fine. 
> 
> To construct an introducer, create a new base directory for it (the name of 
> the directory is up to you), cd into it, and run "tahoe create-introducer .". 
> Now run the introducer using "tahoe start .". It only created tahoe.cfg and 
> tahoe-introducer.tac. I dont see a introducer.furl. And how do you run the 
> introducer with tahoe start? 
> 
>   Hi Brandon, I ran through the instructions at:
> 
> http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/docs/running.rst 
> 
>  which are the current docs for this process.
> 
>   I was initially confused also.   The thing which may not be obvious is that 
> the introducer creates it's own furl, so the file "introducer.furl" does not 
> exist until after you run "tahoe start ." !
> 
>   My guess is that you have run the preceding step "tahoe create-introducer 
> .", but not the necessary command "tahoe start ." .   The reason for the 
> necessity of the second command for the creation of introducer.furl is 
> slightly opaque to me.
> 
>   Maybe the introducer generates a new furl every time it is started (in case 
> its IP address has changed), so that functionality needs to exist in "tahoe 
> start ." whether or not it's in "tahoe create-introducer ."   I'm not sure 
> this is true, I'll check. 
> 
>   At any rate once you run "tahoe start .", you should see the 
> introducer.furl file you need.
>   
> Cheers!
>  --Zancas
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