[mythtv-users] moving mythbox onto different network? computer says nooooo...

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Tue Apr 4 15:31:35 UTC 2006


Christopher Friend wrote:
>>>Did you stop your mythbackend and then run mythtv-setup and set up the IP 
>>>address/hostname? Do you have matching entries in /etc/hosts? That's what 
>>>it took for me. I don't use SUSE because it seems any simple configuration 
>>>requires a gui rather than a simple text file, so I can't help you with 
>>>that. Also, make sure your firewall isn't blocking the necessary ports. If 
>>>you're having problems with IM and the like, you have either a NAT setup 
>>>issue and/or a firewall running that's blocking access.
> 
> 
> thanks for the reply. yeah, i did mess about the ip/hostname in mythsetup. 
> ip is localhost and the one that goes on about access from othermachines is 
> 192.168.0.3, the same as i have for the lan card i was using when it worked, 
> and that now connects to a win xp machine. it did work for a bit, i think 
> it's stopped again though.
> 
> to make things more complicated, i did try connecting the adsl modem 
> directly to the machine. fixes all the IM and other connection problems but 
> not myth. and it does something weird to the dns server ips i put in, but i 
> ignore that.
> 
> all the firewalls on suse/windows are turned off whenever i try anything, 
> just so they don't complicate matters.
> 
> i'll have a look in /etc/hosts and see what it says.

Check the mythtv HOW-TO documentation down about chapter 23. There is a 
particular procedure which has to be followed to move a setup to another 
box. Sounds like you have broken it.

Geoff


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