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Maybe this will give a clue. I captured this from the command window while trying to connect to the remote backend (192.168.0.101) from a Windows frontend (192.168.0.119): 2014-09-10 13:25:48.240974 I MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server: localhost:6543 (try 1 of 1) 2014-09-10 13:25:48.2509...

Did you restart mysqld after you added the file? I assume you're running a newer version of mysql.If not, you need to just comment out the skip-networking in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. and this should be the last line of my.cnf. !includedir /etc/mysql/conf.d/ Yes, I restarted the daemon. I'm runnning the l...

Yea, it's actually 192.168.0.101.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes, the backend server is at 191.168.0.101 and the password is correct.

Tried the xmythtv.cnf file and it didn't help.

Any other ideas? I'm kind of surporised this has turned out to be such a roadblock. I had no trouble when I did the same thing with the Mint 14 backend.

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded to Mint 17 with a clean install and am continuing struggling to get MythTV and Mythweb working again. The backend and frontend run fine on the new Mint 17 serverm but remote frontends can't connect to the backend. I traced the problem to MySQL. Specifically, I get th...

Mythtv 25.2 on Linux Mint 15 ... I'm trying to get mythlink to run as a user job. Here's the command I'm using: /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/user_jobs/mythlink.pl --link /home/mythtv/links --chanid "%CHANID%" --starttime "%STARTTIME%" --format '%T%-%S-%Y%m%d-%H%i' When run as a user job the...