<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I am simply verifying that I can ping my router but not my windows box.<br>
I also am able to ping this Ubuntu box from itself.<br>
Both FE and BE are on the same machine and I can not figure out how to<br>
make things work. I think that the FE and BE need to communicate with<br>
each other even though they are in the same box. But when I click on<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">"test connection" I get a "failed" message.<br>
<br>
</div>Since I CAN ping this Ubuntu box from itself, shouldn't frontend and<br>
backend be able to communicate.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>There are several reasons that the frontend might not be able to access the backend or the mysql database. One would be an actual connection/network issue. Several people have suggested that you connect through <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a> or localhost. That should work unless you have some issue with the loopback, which is uncommon. The other reason you may not be able to communicate is if you have an authorization or password issue with mysql. When the backend setup asked you for your mysql root password, it was needed to setup the mythtv user and password and the mythconverg table in the database. After that is done, myhthtv will access the database with the mythtv user. If you got the ip address or mysql root password wrong during the initial setup then the mythtv user and the mythconverg table never got created and so you won't be able to connect. Someone referred you to the pertenant wiki address for mysql. I would make sure you have the root password correct and then I would run the setup again to make sure that the mythtv user and the mythconverg database are created properly. You can log in to mysql from the command line as the mythtv user to check if you have access. Once that is working. Then you can proceed with mythtv and you shouldn't have connection issues anymore.<br>