Re: GUI mining - now with BFI

I am just getting started with bitcoin, and am running into problems already.

I have added both the bitcoin.exe file and the entire folder of guiminer.exe into Comodo Firewall/Defense+ as "Trusted file" but the GUIMiner just appears to stick to "Connecting...".
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You should stop "generate coins" on bitcoin client. Did it downloaded block chain by the way ?

And if you really want to solo mine, use bitcoind ~~and setup rpc=username and rpcpassword=password in your bitcoin.conf in %appdata%/roaming/bitcoin.~~

I now did the following

Stop both miners
Started the bitcoind.exe in the deamon folder. (for good measure, I also added it to the trusted-files-list of Comodo)
It showed an empty console-screen (I had to copy the .dll from the bitcoin.exe-folder to the deamon folder for it to work)
Started both miners again
After a few minutes, still no result other than the aforementioned

Does bitcoind.exe have parameters which I should use?
Can I give other information which might help? I am not using any flags btw.