Yeah, there's a lot of confusion with next gen cryptocurrency clients. Something we have to work on over time.

There is no such thing as a "wallet file", so there cannot feasibly be any way of creating an offline wallet. The accounts require securing once you log in by publishing your public key to the blockchain (issuing a transaction), so having a purely offline wallet doesn't make sense due to this either, as your account would not be totally secured if you were to deposit funds into it. The password system actually hooks you directly into the blockchain, and gets your balance information from it.

This means that you only ever have to safely store your password. Your computer could go up in flames and you'd never lose access to your accounts while you still have it.  You can access the client securely from any PC on any operating system - although obviously normal operational security applies - e.g., don't use a computer you don't trust not to be infected with viruses or keyloggers.

To open ports on your router, check out this site: http://portforward.com/

You don't need to forward the ports if you're not planning on running a hallmarked node though. And the wallet does have UPnP, so you shouldn't need to unless you're planning on opening up the service as a public API node at least.

EDIT: I think there has been some confusion, as you've been pointed to the port checker. You shouldn't NEED it, but if the wallet won't work without it then use portforward.com

Ask away with any questions you have, totally understood that it takes some learning to get used to using these Java based next gen cryptos.

Is there a Rich List and/or a block explorer available?

I'm kind of interested to see where I rank. 

New ANN looks great by the way! 

Important to note that you also need a static external IP address. If you don't, you may never receive a payout as the hallmark is tied to your IP, and has to be detected for over 24 hours straight to be eligible for one. You can rent DigitalOcean droplets for $5 a month that it will run fine on, and they're currently paying a little over that per node at this price I think.

Opening a port is opening it on your router
Forwarding a port is forwarding an open port on your router to your desktop
Triggering a port is something wholly more complex and my advice is to ignore it if you don't fancy jumping down the networking rabbit hole ;-)


Everything you need can be found here Crypto-in-tha-blood: http://explorer.nhzcrypto.org/

Check the accounts page for the rich list.

NHZ and the 'Blocknet' decentralized blockchain ecosystem
First public announcement paper on 'Blocknet'

http://downloads.xc-official.com/images/14-10-15%20Blocknet%20presentation.pdf

Teams involved:
SSD, XST
LXC, BitSwift
Apex, NHZ
XC, SDC
UTIL


On November 5'th the first 'Decentralized blockchain ecosystem hangout discussion will take place.'

We will post details about how you can get involved, and where it will be hosted.

Is it possible this port needs to be opened on my Comcast Business Class modem as well?  This PC is currently plugged into the router which is plugged into the modem.

Just catching up, so bare with me.

Yes, that means your port is actually not opened and will not be picked up on the network.

I use: http://portforward.com/

Working on a more detailed walk through now for it in written format, and also have a video ready to go with it.

Set new rule in Windows Firewall to open port 7774, still not working:-(  I don't know what else to try at this point, might have to give up the quest.

Tried to open the port on the modem for the router, was all I could think of to try.  Didn't work of course.

Appreciate everyone's help in trying to get me going, but gonna have to give up at this point.  Lots of time messing around and not getting anywhere:-(

Many thanks to everyone though!!

Appreciate bud and no worries!  The current docs seemed straight forward enough, minus of course how to open ports on specific routers which will be impossible anyways.  I didn't really have any troubles following them once I figured out I wasn't dealing with a normal wallet:-)  Don't really want to go the VPN route since I have this PC running 24x7 anyways so will be cool if I can get this to work on my PC.

Thanks again!