[mythtv-users] Help! New Frontend box cannot connect to master backend in setup.

Allen Edwards allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com
Sat Aug 9 03:49:43 UTC 2008


Phil Bridges wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Allen Edwards
> <allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com> wrote:
> 
>> However, I cannot play music or videos.  I can see the titles, but
>> when I try and play I get a message about failure to open.   I think I
>> need to enable NTFS on the backend and will try that later today.
> 
> I think you're looking for NFS, not NTFS.  Yes, your music / video
> directories will need to be mounted on your frontend; preferably, at
> the same mountpoint as they exist on your other machine.
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Thanks for the help.

I enabled NFS but that didn't help.  I gave up and installed the DVR 
interface which removes these options and simplifies the interface. 
Good enough for what I want to do.

BTW, I could not get XvMC to work either in spite of having made it work 
on an almost identical computer and another more powerful one.  SLIM 
seems to be working well so I will try and stick with that.

Allen



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