Making a private network using ipfs desktop, it doesn't have a swarm.key right ?

[AkshitV]

Ipfs desktop runs without swarm key right ?
i could check that in config, under Identity it also has PrivKey, whats this for and why do i not have this, when i make a private network right ?
is think this is used to find the location of files right ? correct me if i am wrong ,
why does a private network not have this ?
does this mean that a private network is working without a priv key of every peer?
this would impact security of the private network right ?

[hacdias]

@AkshitV by default, IPFS Desktop just runs a regular installation of go-ipfs with some flags for optimization for a regular user.

To create a private network using IPFS Desktop, you need to do the same as you would need to in any other IPFS installation. I will leave some links here that may be help you better than I do:

• Documentation for Private Networks
• A tutorial explaining how to create a private network

These kind of questions (not actually related to IPFS Desktop) would perhaps get more replies on our forum: discuss.ipfs.io.

Please let me know if you need further help!

[stanlypalathingal]

Hi ihave my ipfs private network running. but cannot start the ipfs-desktop.

[hacdias]

As the error says, IPFS Desktop does not support private networks.