[mythtv-users] Remote MythFrontend problems - pls help!

[Larry Matter]

I think you also need to configure the IP of the backend machine using
either the setup program or the setup menu in the main myth program -
check the docs to be sure.  It defaults to localhost (127.0.0.1) and you
need to set it to, in your case, 192.168.0.3.  Don't mess with the port
numbers.

Larry

> I am running mythtv-0.8 frontend and backend on an Athlon 1600+ running
> RH9.  Video card is Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (128Meg), capture card Hauppage
> WinTv PCI.  Sound is onboard via 686B (Alsa via82xx driver).  I have
> been very impressed with performance and usability of this project -
> thanks for an awesome product!
>
> I am experiencing difficulties trying to get a remote frontend box
> running.  The remote box is a Dell Latitude C800 (p3/850) running RH9.
> I have installed all of the necessary components to satisfy Mythfrontend
> dependencies.  I have added an entry to /etc/hosts for my backend box
> (mythbackend, 192.168.0.30) and have changed the first line of
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/mysql.txt to read DBHostName=mythbackend.
>
> I have verified connectivity to MySql from the client machine; can
> successfully query tables in the mythconverg database.
>
> When I run mythfrontend on the client machine, I receive the following
> messages:
>
> connecting to backend server:127.0.0.1:6543
> Could not connect to backend server.
>
> Obviously something is wrong here: mysql.txt has the backend database
> set to "mythbackend", which resolves to 192.168.0.30; why is the client
> trying to connect to localhost?
>
> I have tried everything that I can think of to get this running; I used
> the binaries compiled on my backend machine, the RPMs that are
> available.  I did a clean install of RH9 and built MythTV from scratch,
> following the build instructions explicitly - same result in all cases.
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm missing something simple here - this should be
> working. Is there a way to get mythfrontend to spit out more verbose
> startup messages?
>
> At wits end - please help!
>
> == Steve
>
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