[mythtv-users] Problem with the mythconverg database

[William Munson]

Nathan Smith wrote:
> On Oct 22, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>
>   
>> Nathan Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I'm using mythtv-0.19, I'm running into problems connecting to the
>>> database through another computer.
>>>
>>> On the computer which is running the mythtv backend, I can connect to
>>> the database, and I can run mythbackend and mythfrontend. On my other
>>> computer (which is a mac -- I built the mythtv-0.19 binary from
>>> source), I get the following error when I try and connect to the  
>>> server:
>>>
>>> 2006-10-22 16:40:51.339 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>>> 192.168.1.11
>>>
>>>       
>> Is 1.11 the frontend or the backend?  Is it quite a common mistake to
>> connect a remote frontend to a mysql instance running locally  
>> instead of
>> the mysql running on the backend.
>>     
>
> 1.11 is the backend -- 1.50 is the frontend, so afaik I'm doing  
> things correctly.
>
> Nate
>
>
>   
Are you sure that you built the frontend with mysql support? The message 
you indicate shows a successful connection to the database.