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Hi all,<BR>
this is my first go at using a secondary backend and as such I am having some difficulties. Apart from the fact that my MBE won't automatically wakeonlan my SBE, when I power up the MBE it tells me that there are conflicting recordings because it only has half the number of tuners. When I finally manually switch on the SBE it can connect and watch TV but MBE still says conflicts. If I open MythTV backend settings and then close them again then finally the MBE realises that it has more tuners available and says no conflicts.<BR>
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I read somewhere that having dynamic IP addresses (DHCP) can sometimes cause this so (even though I have my router assigning static addresses via DHCP) I set the MBE and SBE to have static IPs (but I didn't change anything in the router). That did not fix my problem however I am using the new network manager in Mythbuntu 8.10 so I don't know if I did it right. Should I be removing the network manager and "hard-wiring" the IP address so that it doesn't wait to connect and bring up a balloon over the MythTV GUI that says "you are now connected to the wired network"?<BR>
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Here are the facts:
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<LI>MBE = Core2 Duo 2.67GHz running AMD64 Mythbuntu 8.10; only modifications from standard install are fstabbing a second HDD and it is configured to use MythWelcome and ACPI
<LI>SBE = P4 3GHz HT running fresh install of i386 Mythbuntu 8.10 with all the latest updates and no mods to standard install (apart from trying to assign static IP)
<LI>I just sent another email about having problems accessing migrated recordings on the second drive in my MBE, I don't know if this is related.
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I assume that it should be simple to connect a SBE to a MBE because lots of people are doing it and I cannot find much info explaining howto get it working. I must just be missing something.<BR>
I have many more questions about the operation of a SBE but they can wait until I get this running and am able to actually have a go first!!<BR>
thanks,<BR>
Glen
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