I am sure I have read somewhere that you need the passphrase in ""s, eg. ./darkcoind masternode start "passphrase" - but I am old and my memory sometimes fails me.
I'll be having my 1st go at a masternode later today, hours of baffled incomprehension to look forward to!

Yah, I always use quotes, which are usually needed if you use a lot of weird characters... Hope someone can clarify if something is missing here for me. I'll see it tomorrow if anyone can, got to go to bed now

Start darkcoind on remote machine.
On your local machine specify the IP at launch with -masternodeaddr=YOUR_SERVER_IP
Unlock your local machine wallet with your passphrase.
On your local machine, ./darkcoind masternode start
Something really seems to be missing because my remote server does not see my local wallet. I'm assuming the last line above should read "on your server, ./darkcoind masternode start "passphrase" but since it was written that way, I tried starting the masternode on my local machine, and it still didn't connect to my server. Could my problem be that I'm behind a router? Maybe that's what I'll try tomorrow, plugging directly into my modem, maybe that will work?