[mythtv-users] Re: Can not connect to backend server from second machine.

[Wes Newell]

Wes Newell wrote:

> I'm at a dead end. I've had a single system running a few weeks 
> without any problems I couldn't find and fix, but I just can't get a 
> second seperate frontend to connect to the database. Backend is on 
> 192.168.0.2. New frontend is on 192.168.0.3. No problem pinging each 
> other. Error I get is can not connect to database (111). I've 
> configured a mythfe1 user in mysql from any host with the same 
> password as the regular mythtv user. On the remote machine, I've 
> changed the user to mythfe1 for the frontend and changed the database 
> host to 198.162.0.2 (the backend database). The backend has 
> 192.168.0.2 for both Host and server name. I can ping both ways. The 
> backend is running 0.18.1 on vanilla kernel 2.6.14 (Mandrake 2005LE). 
> The new frontend is running knoppmyth and frontend version 0.18.1.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> I've also considered creating a usenet newsgroup for Linux PVR since I 
> couldn't find one. Anyone have any thoughts on that. alt groups are 
> fairly easy to create.
>
Forget this problem. Finally found it. Default install of mysql had 
networking turned off. Just didn't think of that.