[mythtv-users] Playback permissions problem on standalone frontend

Stephen Worthington stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Fri Dec 23 04:54:51 UTC 2016


On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:18:30 +1100, you wrote:

>I've been running a virtualised MythTV backend for a while but decided to
>build a new one and migrate to that because of some problems it was having.
>
>After installing from MythBuntu 14.04 ISO and importing the database from
>the old machine everything seemed to be OK. Recordings are on a NAS over
>CIFS so I didn't need to migrate them.
>
>Here's the problem... I have a standalone frontend and it can watch
>recordings made on the old backend just fine, but any new recordings made
>on the new frontend are are not accessible.
>
>I guess it's some sort of permissions thing but I don't know what. The
>mythtv users on both old and new backends have the same ID: mythtv:x:115:124
>
>I know the recording is being created because the backend also has
>mythfrontend on it and the new recordings are playable, so the problem is
>only when playing back on the standalone frontend.
>
>Can anyone suggest what the problem might be?
>
>Regards,
>Phill

So what do the mythfrontend.log and mythbackend.log files have to say
about the problem?


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