[mythtv-users] Is network required for single frontend/backend machine?

test sofasurferlinux at charter.net
Sun Nov 2 19:46:51 UTC 2008


Robert Johnston wrote:
> On 02/11/2008 1:12 PM, test wrote:
>   
>> My question is why can I not connect my frontnend to my backend.
>> I have a wireless router which connects my 2 computers to the internet.
>> My linux box, which has my FE and BE uses an iP address of 192.168.2.3.
>> It this what I should use as the "server address"?
>>     
>
> It is quite possible that MySQL has been set to bind to 127.0.0.1 only, 
> so trying to access it from the actual IP address (192.168.*) is 
> refused. Try stating your backend is on 127.0.0.1. That may just fix it 
> (Though it may cause issues when you later want to add other back of 
> frontends).
>   

127.0.0.1  did not fix it. I still get a "failed" result from a connection test.



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