[mythtv-users] 0.19 - local frontend working great , remote frontend not (localhost:6543)

Phill Wiggin alamar at gmail.com
Wed Jul 19 14:46:04 UTC 2006


Go on  your backend computer (Dragonfly) and fire up Mythfrontend.
There's a Settings menu.  Somewhere in there (pardon me, I'm not at my
mythbox) there's an option for "Myth Backend" that's going to say
"localhost". Change that to the IP of Dragonfly.

Basically, what's happening is your Mysql table lists "MythBackend" as
"localhost".  When Dragonfly starts up mythfrontend, it connects and
queries for "MythBackend". All works fine on Dragonfly, because
"localhost" resolves.  However, when Lightningbug connects to mysql,
it asks for the value of "MythBackend" and gets the response
"localhost", which resolves to "Lightning".... which has no backend
service running.

Change the MythBackend Server value on the backend machine
(Dragonfly). There's no reason not to. "localhost" and "<Dragonfly's
IP>" resolve the same way.  Hopefully, the next time you fire up
mythfrontend on Lightning, it'll pick up that IP address and run.

--Phill W.

(Hope this isn't too vague, but I'm working from 2-3month old memories
here... and my memory's never good very good. :))


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