[mythtv-users] Installing only mythfrontend on Ubuntu

Clay ctmythtv at pacbell.net
Tue Jan 4 05:46:43 UTC 2011


Harry Devine wrote:
> On 01/03/2011 07:43 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> On 01/03/2011 07:21 PM, Harry Devine wrote:
>>> On 01/03/2011 06:42 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>>>>> OK, I was able to get it installed. Now when I run it, I get the 
>>>>> "Cannot
>>>>> log in" error. I'm putting in my master backend's IP address. Is this
>>>>> not
>>>>> correct? I've always had a combined BE/FE until now, and I'm adding 
>>>>> this
>>>>> occassional frontend.
>>>>>
>>>> When you setup the backend did you have it listen on 127.0.0.1 or
>>>> localhost instead of the external ip address?
>>>>
>>>> John
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>>> Nope. I used 192.168.1.200 and not localhost or 127.0.0.1.
>>
>> This is actually a mysql error. The usual setup is 'mythtv at localhost': 
>> mysql only accepts a login from localhost.
>>
>> You need a remote user which is allowed to use the mysql server on 
>> what is now a remote BE.
> But this PC is an occassional frontend only.  I never set up any BE role 
> on it.  I'm confused by this statement.

As a 'frontend' it will want to schedule, delete, bookmark, etc. so it 
must have permissions to interact with the DB.

[snip...]


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