<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 21, 2008, at 4:36 AM, Josh White wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Thanks for all the tips. Unfortunately, none of the ideas mentioned seem to be the problem. I set the backend to use a static IP address (<a href="http://192.168.1.5" target="_blank">192.168.1.5</a>) which is the IP address the machine has used for about 18 months now. That is the IP address I have the local frontend that runs on the backend machine set to connect to, and the address I have the remote frontends set to use. They are all connected through a single netgear router that has also worked well, without any changes for months. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>You need to look at your mythbackend log files to see if a connection attempt is made and what the error from mysql is.</div><div>I'm sure your problem is something that's already been mentioned. :)</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>I too have had trouble when changing the password generated during installation, and thus I have always simply used the one generated (it's not a password I need to use very often, so it's not a big deal for me to write it down).<br> <br>So for some reason, the local frontend, which is set to connect to "<a href="http://192.168.1.5" target="_blank">192.168.1.5</a>" (which it's own IP address) with a password of "ZfxL8ncZ" works, but my remote frontend, (sitting on the same router, with an IP address of <a href="http://192.168.1.4" target="_blank">192.168.1.4</a>) set to connect to the backend at "<a href="http://192.168.1.5" target="_blank">192.168.1.5</a>" with the password "ZfxL8ncZ" gives me the error message with a question mark. Not that this eliminates any chance for networking problems, but I can connect the two machines connect via NFS, SSH, and VNC, so I think the network is ok. What else could be causing the problem?<br> </div></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Make sure mysql is accepting connections from remote machines.</div><div>Make sure you use the grant command to accept logins from your remote machines.</div><div>More info on how to do this is in the link I already provided:</div><div><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythFrontend#Debugging_MythFrontend_Problems">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/MythFrontend#Debugging_MythFrontend_Problems</a></div></body></html>