[mythtv-users] Ripping DVD's on a remote frontend

[Glenn Chubak]

This seems like it should be rather simple but I've hit a dead end.  I have 
three remote frontends and a dedicated backend.  When I try to rip a dvd on a 
frontend it tells me that it can't connect to the Myth Transcoding Daemon.  
When I try to start 'mtd' on one of the frontends it complains about being 
unable to connect to the MySQL server (output below).  mtd seems to start and 
run correctly on the backend.  How is this supposed to be configured?  I 
can't seem to find anything in the docs or mailing lists that addresses this 
problem.  This is all running on Fedora Core using the atrpms if it matters.

Thanks,

Glenn

------- output from mtd on frontend -------
2006-10-16 11:01:55.956 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2006-10-16 11:01:56.382 New DB connection, total: 1
2006-10-16 11:01:56.445 Unable to connect to database!
2006-10-16 11:01:56.445 Driver error was [1/2002]:
QMYSQL3: Unable to connect
Database error was:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' 
(2)

QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
QSqlQuery::exec: database not open
2006-10-16 11:01:56.525 DB Error (KickDatabase):
Query was:
SELECT NULL;
No error type from QSqlError?  Strange...
Could not initialize myth context. Exiting.
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