[mythtvnz] Problems connecting to database

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Steve Hodge<stevehodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:23 AM, James Booth <james at booths.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Ross (and Wade). I was still having problems with my remote front
>> end
>> and it turned out I had to explicitly grant access permissions for the
>> mythtv
>> user from the remote front end address, even though I had been through
>> this in
>> the myth setup config. I assume that was my problem on the combined
>> frontend/backend as well. I'm now thinking the post-upgrade configuration
>> fell
>> over for some reason.
>
> I think that is something you've always had to do manually:
> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2 says that the default
> mysql setup is for combined backend+frontend only (so your problem there was
> probably something else). Always pays to read the docs :-)


yes but different distros set things up differently too. I don't
recall having to do anything special to mythbuntu to allow remote FEs
to connect.

However you should ALWAYS remember to NEVER connect your combined
FE/BE via 127.0.0.1 as it will backfire the moment you want to connect
a remote FE.