[mythtv-users] Connecting to backend

[Tom Lichti]

Nathan Smith wrote:
> 
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Allan Wilson wrote:
> 
>> From this line you can see it isn't connecting:
>>
>> 2006-10-23 11:44:49.988 RemoteEncoder::openControlSocket():
>> Connection timed out.
>>
>> You have to give permission in the mysql database on your backend for 
>> the remote frontend to connect up. You can search the mailing list and 
>> see the command you have to run to give it access. I can't remember 
>> the command off the top of my head. 
> 
> I can connect directly to the mysql database on my backend machine from 
> my frontend machine -- so I don't think it's that, unless you're talking 
> about something different.
> 
> Nate

Does the user have a valid and correct ~/.mythtv/mysql.txt file? Do you 
have the MySQL client libraries installed?

Tom