I was just copying exactly what was in the How to.

I did not cleary explain what IP I was looking for. When I setup the frontend to be a sbe, as per these directions:
I may have made a typographicall error here and hence the frontend cannot find the back end. So I was hoping there was a file I could look at to verify my keyed entries. The command mythtv-setup just gives me the mysql error so I cannot check so see if I made a key in error.

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SIS K7S5A mb R4V5
Amd 2000 + cpu Atheros chipset wireless NIC
GF4 ti4200 Video onboard ALSA sound card
768 meg sdram partial install on Nuv2disc
120 g maxtor HD
PVR 250 Video Capture card

How is your network set up? If your machines are getting a different IP address from a dhcp server then the IPs in your host file, things aren't going to work. You need to uncomment your localhost entry to hit the mysql server. On the mbe mysql.txt is looking for localhost, so nothing is going to work.
Check your IP addresses as suggested earlier.
It is easier to not mess with the hosts file if you have a router or dhcp server with fixed leases and you don't care about using hostnames.

scotbrady,

I have a router that is hooked to a cable modem. The router does dhcp and is the gateway to the internet. I have two winboxes and two linux boxes(sbe and mbe) on my home network. Both the SBE and the MBE are set up as statice ip's set to use the router as a gateway. Both the sbe and mbe ping the network fine and are able to reach the internet.

Sorry for my inexperience in DNS, localhost ant all that stuff. I really appreciate your input. I will try some more of your suggestions later this evening. Thanx again.

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SIS K7S5A mb R4V5
Amd 2000 + cpu Atheros chipset wireless NIC
GF4 ti4200 Video onboard ALSA sound card
768 meg sdram partial install on Nuv2disc
120 g maxtor HD
PVR 250 Video Capture card

I would change your /etc/hosts on mbe to look like:


and on sbe:


That's it. You can use mythtv and mythbox2 instead of mbe and sbe if you want to.
Then just work with the IP address in /usr/share/mythtv/mysql.txt.

mbe:


sbe:

Use the MySQL client on sbe to try and connect to the MySQL server on mbe. If that works, then the issue is elsewhere if it doesn't work, then the issue is with MySQL.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Well I finally got my network back up and working. Had to tear the house apart to allow for new carpet, tile, etc. The works. Glad that nighmare is over. (wife is happy though)

Scotbrady, I changed my mbe and sbe to the settings you listed. After a reboot the sbe hit the mbe first try. I am now able to see and watch (from the sbe) the tv recordings from the mbe. I did not realize I had to reset all the frontend settings from scratch. The SBE started with a different look but I got it set back to the blue osd I am used to.

So now my live tv (on the sbe) does not work (so it will not record either) I went into the mythtv-setup and setup the bttv card and everything else again (it was all blank) but still no live tv. My program guide works fine. XAWTV works, so the tuner card is detected and working. My mbe is sitting in a remote location for now (no tv or monitor) but logging on with VNC shows it has no tuner set up either.

When the SBE finally connected to the MBE and the frontend started, the settings were not what I had previously set or even set to the r4v5 defaulsts. I had to reset it to the blue osd and fix a lot of other sturff. I also had to reset the mythtv-setup settings. Is this normal when converting to this sbe/mbe setup?

The video streams nicely form the mbe to the sbe via a 54 mps wireless lan (both myth boxes use a wireless lan card). The mad wifi drivers seem to work great with the generic airlink wireless lan card.

Any suggestions on why live tv will not work? I will keep tinkering.

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SIS K7S5A mb R4V5
Amd 2000 + cpu Atheros chipset wireless NIC
GF4 ti4200 Video onboard ALSA sound card
768 meg sdram partial install on Nuv2disc
120 g maxtor HD
PVR 250 Video Capture card

Have you looked in the log?

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

With a bit more tinkering I got live TV working on the SBE. Some how the settings "Directory to hold recordings" and "Directory to hold Live TV buffer" were set to some non-existient directory on /mnt. Not sure why these setting were like that, I am sure I did not set them. Once I reset everything in mythtv-setup, set the live tv buffer to /cache/cache/ live tv fired up.

I noticed that no capture card is set on the mbe, so I will have to reset the mythtv-setup once I get the mbe set up back on the entertainment center. Both the SBE and the MBE lost a lot of settings when I made changes as outlined in this how to.

I really only needed to do a couple of changes as outlined by Scotbrady. I pretty much got screwed up when I tried to follow all the sybolic link stuff outlined by Jesse (mainly because I am such a noob to linux)

Once I am sure that the SBE and MBE are functioniing well with recordings and playbacke of TV, then I will take the next step with the sybolic links to share the music files.

Thanks to Jesse, Soctbrady and Cesman for your pointers. No way have I could of did this on my own.

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SIS K7S5A mb R4V5
Amd 2000 + cpu Atheros chipset wireless NIC
GF4 ti4200 Video onboard ALSA sound card
768 meg sdram partial install on Nuv2disc
120 g maxtor HD
PVR 250 Video Capture card

To watch live TV or TV recordings, you don't need to do any symlinking.

Since the Release of r5a15 I think some of the files are different. I think even the linhes howto is not completely correct.


I have 2 front/backend machines I have 2 tuners in 1 and 1 tuner in another.

Can't I get all three tuners to show up on both machines?

snake

No, nothing has changed. Yes, you can get three tuners in LinHES.

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

I finally got the master & slave working. I was having constant connection problems. On the slave I could never get the tv to work. once I stopped and started the backend manually, it worked great. Come to find out it was the mysql.txt. On the slave I had changed the one in /home/mythtv/.mythtv instead of /etc/mythtv once I corrected this everything works great!

U guys are great! keep up the good work!