[mythtv-users] Setting up a second frontend

[Mark Crutch]

Having finally managed to get my backend going, I'm trying to set up a second frontend. Both machines get their IP from DHCP, though the backend has a fixed lease, giving me the following:-

Backend:
  Hostname: hush
  IP (fixed lease): 10.0.0.3

Frontend:
  Hostname: kitchen
  IP potentially varies, currently 10.0.0.50


I've tried setting up the frontend a few times now, but when I run mythtvsetup I get the following error:-

   Told to create a NEW database schema, but the database already
   has 44 tables.
   If you are sure this is a good mythtv database, verify
   that the settings table has the DBSchemaVer variable.


BTW, my backend and original frontend work fine, and the DBSchemaVer variable does exist. Although I found some references to this error in the archives, I couldn't find anything directly relevant. Most of the answers involved dropping the database and starting again, so that will be my next step, but to save me wildly stabbing in the dark, could someone answer the following questions:-

1) On the backend I have to set both "IP Address for hush" and "Master Server IP address" to 10.0.0.3 right?

2) Do I need to edit /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt on the backend? At the moment the DBHostName variable is set as "localhost", do I need to change that to "hush"?

3) Anything else I need to do on the backend?

4) On the frontend, I need to edit /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt and set DBHostName to "hush", right?

5) If I can get mythtvsetup to run this time, I believe I have to set "Master Server IP address" to "10.0.0.3", but what about the first IP address? Will this appear as "IP Address for hush" and need to be 10.0.0.3, or will it appear as "IP Address for kitchen" and need to be 127.0.0.1? Or 10.0.0.50?

6) Will I be better off assigning a fixed lease for the remote frontend as well?

Thanks,

Mark