[mythtv-users] access denied for remote frontend

Stephen Kitchener stephen at g6dzj.demon.co.uk
Thu Jan 5 22:45:04 UTC 2006


On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:54, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Steve.
>
> > On Thursday 05 Jan 2006 16:16, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> > You need to change mysql's startup file...
> >
> > /etc/sysconfig/mysqld
>
> I assume you mean /etc/mysql/my.cnf.

Nope, that's where the RPM put the file.....

>
> > eg...
> >
> > # (oe) Remove --skip-networking to enable network access from
> > # non local clients. Access from localhost will still work.
> > # MYSQLD_OPTIONS="--skip-networking"
> > MYSQLD_OPTIONS=""
> >
> > # (oe) set TMPDIR and TMP environment variables
> > TMPDIR="${datadir}/.tmp"
> > TMP="${TMPDIR}"
>
> How does this help?

It dosn't...sorry I misread your email - 
>
> As I said, I have no problems connecting to the mysql server
> from the remote frontend using the mysql command line client.
> The mysql server is configured for remote network access and it
> works.  The problem is not a skip-networking setting or anything
> like that.  If it was, I couldn't connect at all.
>
> I have tmpdir set to /tmp.  I've not read anything that suggests
> that this setting would be important, provided that /tmp has
> sufficent space.
>
> The problem seems to be that the mythfrontend client is not sending
> the right password or not sending it in the right way.  I can't
> figure out why.
>
> Eric


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