[mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?
Kevin Kuphal
kuphal at dls.net
Thu Jan 6 21:28:34 EST 2005
Brad Templeton wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>
>>It'd sure be nice if there was a way for a mythfrontend to discover all
>>the settings needed on a network. Something like
>>Rendevous/ZeroConf/UPnP. Does anyone who runs KnoppMyth in this way
>>know what all the settings are that are asked for on boot? Is it just
>>the address of the master backend or are there more?
>>
>>
>
>Strictly, it's the address of the database server, which then reveals
>the address of the master backend and other backends.
>
>Indeed, discovery and plug and play are very useful ideas, and no doubt
>are on the feature list somewhere.
>
>You can't really discover SQL servers without opening up their security
>more than people like. So what would make sense would be for the
>master backend to listen for broadcast packets on a port, and respond
>to them with config info for frontends and other backends.
>
>
On my home network, behind firewalls, I have none of these security
concerns. If it is just the address of the DB server, it shouldn't be
hard to do Zeroconf or even a simple broadcast as you suggest. I'll
have to put this on my list of things to do...
Kevin
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