Hi

New to this forum so i thought my first post might as well be me saying hi..

and now i might as well ask my first question aswell

When i run KnoppMyth in frontend mode, The frontend is never able to contact my backend server which is strange as i am able to get my other computer to hop on although the computer is not running knoppmyth (The machine is running Gentoo Linux) i am able to connect to the backend mythbox, so i am at a lose to what is causing the inability for knoppmyth to connect to my mythbackend on another computer.

Summary:

The backend Machine is a "Gentoo Linux" running as a seperate MythTv box so it has no front end so to speack.

I have had a another computer connect to the Mythtv Backend it was another "Gentoo Linux" machine [Note: that this machine was a seprate computer and was not running on the same machine as the Mythtv Backend]

I was kinda thinking mabe theres a version diffrents between the MythTv i have installed on my Backend Machine and the gentoo used in knoppmyth

Any way thanks for reading any questions that could help you answer my question i will happierly answer.

After doing some more research on google i came across this link
http://www.kravlor.com/node/116

What seemed to be the problem was knoppmyth uses Mysql 4.0.* and the server i was using was 4.1.* so the problem lied with hashing scheme in Mysql so if any one else finds them selfs in this problem just follow those instructions and you should be fine

[quote=http://www.kravlor.com/node/116]
KnoppMyth unable to connect to MySQL database
After a bit of tinkering I was able to get my Windows box to at least pipe an X session to the TV-out of my nVidia card. Mythfrontend then was unable to connect to my database. I recieved an error:

Client does not support authentication protocol requested
by server; consider upgrading MySQL client

This turned out to be related to the fact that I used MySQL version 4.1.3, which uses a different password hashing scheme, while the KnoppMyth MySQL client was built with older MySQL libraries.

Workaround: Modify the master backend MySQL database to use the old password hashing scheme. (Reference)
mysql -u root -p
mysql>SET PASSWORD FOR 'mythtv'@'192.168.1.%' = OLD_PASSWORD('my_myth_passwd');
[/quote]

I'm having a similar problem between a release C server and D front end. I think it might be because the server runs mySQL 3 and the front end seems to have mySQL 4, but it doesn't make sense that a client thats of a higher version wouldn't understand an older server

Sense or no that's how it is. The MythTV FAQ is quite clear on this point.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Fr ... s_wrong.3F