[mythtv-users] Has anyone configured a "semi"-diskless frontend?

[Kevin Kuphal]

Brad Templeton wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:11:22PM -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
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>>It'd sure be nice if there was a way for a mythfrontend to discover all 
>>the settings needed on a network.  Something like 
>>Rendevous/ZeroConf/UPnP.  Does anyone who runs KnoppMyth in this way 
>>know what all the settings are that are asked for on boot?  Is it just 
>>the address of the master backend or are there more?
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>Strictly, it's the address of the database server, which then reveals
>the address of the master backend and other backends.
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>Indeed, discovery and plug and play are very useful ideas, and no doubt
>are on the feature list somewhere.
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>You can't really discover SQL servers without opening up their security
>more than people like.   So what would make sense would be for the
>master backend to listen for broadcast packets on a port, and respond
>to them with config info for frontends and other backends.
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On my home network, behind firewalls, I have none of these security 
concerns.  If it is just the address of the DB server, it shouldn't be 
hard to do Zeroconf or even a simple broadcast as you suggest.  I'll 
have to put this on my list of things to do...

Kevin