[mythtv-users] Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help!

[Cedar]

try running setup again on the backend machine and replacing "localhost" 
with the real ip address of the backend.

best,

Cedar


Steve Davidson wrote:

>I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
>RH9.  Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
>WinTv PCI.  Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver).  I have
>been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
>thanks for an awesome product!
>
>I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
>running.  The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9. 
>I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
>dependencies.  I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
>(mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
>/usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.
>
>I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
>successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.
>
>When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
>messages:
>
>connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
>Could not connect to backend server.
>
>Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
>set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
>trying to connect to localhost?
>
>I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
>the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
>available.  I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
>following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.
>
>I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
>working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
>startup messages?  
>
>At wits end - please help!
>
>== Steve
>
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