[mythtv-users] Where is myth getting it's credentials?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Tony Sauri <hoiho.nz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:01, Nick Rout wrote:
>> > I am trying to help someone having authentication problems with
>> > mythfrontend on ubuntu, so as an experiment to try and emulate his
>> > errors I renamed /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt, /etc/mythtv/config.xml,
>> > ~nick/.mythtv/config.xml and ~nick/.mythtv/mysql.txt.
>> >
>> > However when I start either mythfrontend or mythtv-setup (both of
>> > which are wrapper scripts on mythbuntu) the corresponding programs
>> > start without any hitch.
>> >
>> > Where/how are they getting the credentials for the database? I
>> > understood that these came from the above files, which I renamed.
>> >
>> > Confused of Quaketown.
>>
>>
>> I also have a set of files in ~/mythtv/.mythtv (links actually to the /etc
>> files)
>>
>>
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> When none of the files exist, a myth app will (where possible) detect the
> backend via uPnP and connect to the XML service running there to pull in the
> correct credentials, which it then uses to create a valid config.xml.  This
> is likely what is happening if you have removed all config.xml and mysql.txt
> instances.
>
> Robert

I see thanks.

In that case, if the backend is running on 127.0.0.1, I am guessing
the uPnP method will not work, as uPnP doesn't run unless the backend
is running on a non-localhost IP?