[mythtv-users] permisions for /directory

[William Munson]

Damian Surr wrote:
> sudo chown -hR username /stuff
> sudo chown -hR mythtv /stuff/media/mythtv
> sudo chmod -R 772 /stuff
>
> In the end, maybe I only needed that last line.
> All seems well now with that problme now, except now my frontend can't 
> connect to the back end! Why the hell should anything have changed 
> there? It was fine last night.
>
> Any ideas? I don't think I've changed anything that could cause that, 
> but I'm getting the "Can't connect to back end. Are you sure it's 
> running? Are you sure the IP address is correct" .. the answer to both 
> of those is yes.
>
> Damn, the was working so well ...
>
Its your permissions. You blocked access to the backend which runs under 
root. Try chmod -R 777 /stuff