[mythtv-users] strange NFS problem

[Chris Pinkham]

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0500, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> > I just looked at the code and it checks RecordFilePrefix in the
> > settings table, but that appears to be a backend-only setting. I have
> > a RecordFilePrefix entry for one of my frontend-only systems though so
> > I'm not sure how that got there. Can you check your settings table and
> > see if your remote frontend has a RecordFilePrefix entry. If not, add
> > one and see if that makes it start reading directly from the NFS
> > server. It might be a bug that it doesn't work if you've never had a
> > backend on the machine your frontend is on. I don't remember setting
> > up a backend on my frontend-only machine though so I don't know why
> > that entry exists.
> 
> That did it - the setting wasn't there for the frontend (which has never
> had a backend on it).  Guess that should be set up for both during setup?

Thanks.  I put a note on my TODO to get this fixed somehow in CVS.

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Chris