[mythtv-users] Not sure how to accomplish this--any tips?

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Sun Feb 22 16:55:42 UTC 2009


Pete Cap <peteoutside at yahoo.com> says:
> I will be moving to separate frontends and backends shortly.  Here
> is some functionality I want to set up:
> 1. I want to use my HP Mini as basically the "control" for the
>    backend (and certain frontend tasks) like queuing up torrents.
>    Is RDP simply the best way to go about this or are there other
>    options?

RDP would work, if you'd run xrdp on your backend (which I highly
doubt). You mean VNC or NX, surely.

But 'slogin -X userid at backend' then 'mythtv-setup' or 'mv
CentOS-4.0-i386-bin1to4.torrent torrentdirectory' is easier and
simpler, and thus better.

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