[mythtv-users] mythfrontend can't connect to backend/database

[starcycle]

god this is frustrating. out of curiosity I launched mythfrontend on
the server, and that works fine. so apparently it's a network problem?

the ports should already be accessible to the LAN, but I explicitly
opened them anyway, 3066 for mysql and 6543:6544 for mythtv. but still
no go.

I followed all the tutorials for allowing network access in
/etc/mysql/my.cnf (commenting out # localhost, etc.), and added
askip-innodb and set-variable=thread_stack=256k as specified for
connection problems in the mythtv doc, but I must have missed
something. this is really kicking my butt! <grr> something is
configured wrong somewhere to allow network access, but i'm out of
ideas.

do you need to specify anything for mythtv or mysql in
/etc/hosts.allow and .deny? I didn't think you need to for mysql at
least.