[mythtv-users] MySql permissions required for Frontend accessing Backend?

alunt2003 at googlemail.com alunt2003 at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 7 15:26:21 UTC 2006


On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:00:21AM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> alunt2003 at googlemail.com wrote:
> > I have just the ip addresses in both frontends.
> > I have the same user and password in both frontends as well.
> >
> > It's strange the way i can see some info. I can see for example when
> > mythfilldatabase last ran, but not my recordings.
> >
> > Everything works beautifuuly on the combined frontend/backend
> >   
> That must not be the case though because your frontend is trying to 
> connect to your backend using a name.  When you configured the backend 
> in mythtv-setup, did you tell it to identify itself as hostname or IP 
> address?
> 
> Basically, the process is that the frontend connects to the DB using the 
> identifier you put in the frontend config, from there it reads the 
> master backend information you configured when you set up the backend, 
> then it tries to connect to that backend.
> 
> I'm thinking that if you use IP on the frontend, then hostname on the 
> backend, that this might be causing problems.
> 
> Kevin

Kevin, your a genius!
That's exactly what was wrong.
I ran mythtv-setup and your right enough, I had hostnames in the "ip
address of this machine" and "ip address of master server".
I changed them to the actual ip address and problem solved.

Thank you very much.
Alun.

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