I am running a KM install as a backend in my cupboard. I can watch FTA DVB on it no problems. However I have a DELL Optiplex 260 in my loungeroom running suse 10.2. I have installed mythfrontend on it. The FE in lounge has ip 192.168.1.2. The BE has ip 192.168.1.3. The are connected through a cable modem router which has DHCP turned of and a fixed ip address of 192.168.1.1 which of course is the gateway.

I have commented out the bind address in my.cnf

When I run mythtv on the FE i get the mythtv front menu but if I try to watch the television a dialouge box pops up stating ' Could not connect to the master backend server--is it running? Is the IP address set for it in the setup program correct?'

terminal output is as follows

lounge:~ # mythfrontend
2007-07-06 18:16:07.148 Using runtime prefix = /usr
2007-07-06 18:16:07.398 DPMS is disabled.
2007-07-06 18:16:07.474 New DB connection, total: 1
2007-07-06 18:16:07.508 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.1.3
2007-07-06 18:16:07.510 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
2007-07-06 18:16:07.514 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2007-07-06 18:16:07.542 Current Schema Version: 1160
2007-07-06 18:16:07.543 mythfrontend version: 0.20.20060828-4 www.mythtv.org
2007-07-06 18:16:07.543 Enabled verbose msgs: important general
2007-07-06 18:16:07.901 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s].
2007-07-06 18:16:07.902 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0
2007-07-06 18:16:07.904 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.)
2007-07-06 18:16:07.925 Using the Qt painter
2007-07-06 18:16:08.304 Joystick disabled.
2007-07-06 18:16:08.845 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/G.A.N.T./base.xml
2007-07-06 18:16:08.890 Loading from: /usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/base.xml
mythtv: could not connect to socket
mythtv: Connection refused
lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages
2007-07-06 18:16:08.972 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2007-07-06 18:16:11.157 New DB connection, total: 2
2007-07-06 18:16:11.189 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: 192.168.1.3
2007-07-06 18:16:11.225 Connecting to backend server: 127.168.1.3:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2007-07-06 18:16:11.225 Connection timed out.
You probably should modify the Master Server
settings in the setup program and set the
proper IP address.
2007-07-06 18:17:48.962 TV: Attempting to change from None to None
2007-07-06 18:17:51.245 Connecting to backend server: 127.168.1.3:6543 (try 1 of 5)
2007-07-06 18:17:51.245 Connection timed out.
You probably should modify the Master Server
settings in the setup program and set the
proper IP address.


It is definitely running I can see it and watch TV on it.

Any suggestions?

See http://knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page ... nlyInstall

Thanks. Although I didnt want to install KM on the frontend as it has been in the loungeroom for a while running suse 10.2 and allows the missus to access her mail etc. I didnt want to go through the whole re education thing. However I enabled NFS from the link provided in the HOWTO you pointed me too and things seemed to work. I only run mythfrontend at the command line (not mythtv) to get it started and changed the hostname to the IP of my backend (as i had already done) Just got a jumpy picture on HD live tv on the frontend so off to do some searching for that. Thanks mate