[mythtvnz] SOLVED - front end for mac osx 10.6

[Roger Searle]

On 9/10/11 10:25 AM, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Roger Searle<roger.searle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Happily reporting this is solved.  I got the FE to work once I comment
>> out the line for DBPort in the FE mysql.txt file.
> Your previous post showed DBPort as 6543. DBPort relates to the port
> mysql is running on, usually 3306.
>
> 6543 is the port mythbackend is running on and is definitely wrong for DBPort.
>
> All that mysql.txt or config.xml does is point you to the database,
> the database points you to the backend.
>
> The whole scenario is a bit confusing to start with because there are
> a few things you need to get right before remote frontends will work,
> including:
>
> 1. mysql must be configured to listen on the network, not just
> 127.0.0.1 (mythtv-setup|general|first page)
>
> 2. mythbackend must be configured to run on the network address, not
> on 127.0.0.1 (sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-database)
>
> 3. the database must have the correct entries to allow the mythtv user
> (that's the mythtv user within mysql, not the mythtv system user in
> /etc/passwd) to connect from the network with the correct password.
> (sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common
>
> 4. the frontend must have the correct IP address username and password
> in it's config.xml and/or mysql.txt fil so it can find the database.
>
This is excellent info, thank you - I'll file this away for future 
reference in case a re-install or new install comes my way.

It's quite a learning curve but interesting, rewarding and not too 
steep.  More to learn yet....