[mythtv-users] One remote frontend can access Artwork, the other can't.

[Damian]

On 16/04/2016 20:56, HP-mini wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-04-16 at 20:17 +0100, Damian wrote:
>> On 16/04/2016 17:58, Damian wrote:
>>> On 16/04/2016 09:37, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>>> On 16/04/16 01:11, Damian wrote:
>>>>>
> <snip>
>>> Also, I can access files on the server from both machines using nautilus.
>>>
>>> What's going on???
>>>
>>> Damian
>> Update: Some (strange) success.
>>
>> On the frontend, I noticed in ...
>> Setup > Media Settings > Video Settings > General Settings
>> ... that the top line, relating to videos, was empty. The rest of the
>> lines were filled in with /home/tv/.mythtv/Video/xxxxxx locations.
>> I decided to try emptying all of these lines, like the top line, in the
>> hope that it would look to the sever, instead of 'home'.
>>
>> And it worked! ... Mostly.
>>
>> I can now see artwork etc, which is great. However, it's not using the
>> 'folder.jpg' images as the image for each folder. It's using an image
>> from one of the files within the folder instead. This is ok for now (I'm
>> much closer to where I want to be), but I'd still like to get to the
>> bottom of what's going on.
>>
>> The other frontend is working absolutely fine, and that still has all of
>> those /home/tv/.mythtv/Video/xxxxxx lines in "Setup > Media Settings >
>> Video Settings > General Settings"
>>
>> Does this progress point to the source of the problem?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Damian
>> _______________________________________________
> As you have nautilus access to backend storage we assume you have
> shares..
> It is (supposed to be) very bad to have the frontend mythvideo
> (optional) paths overlapping with the backend storage.
> You can still have private folder for each local frontend.
>
> Do you have some NFS/samba share that causes this overlap?
> Maybe your share translates some filenames or only has partial overlap.
Life's too short for this one :-)

I've already spent more time on it than it would take me to wipe the 
frontend and start again from scratch. I think I'll do that and hope 
that whatever screwed up doesn't go wrong again.

Thanks for trying everyone,
Damian