Sorry for bringing back such an old thread, but I have everything setup on the backend and working there, but on the xbox when setting up mythtv and performing the tests, it said everything was ok, reboot and mythtv should start up. Well that was true, mythtv did start up, but only to tell me it cannot connect to the backend. Any ideas how to fix this? Does not make sense to me because it passed all the tests when i let them run, I edited the my.cnf to comment out the skip-networking so mysql networking should be enabled. I can ssh into the xbox from my backend server so I know there is not a network issue, I am so confused. Also, I did not do all the work up to this point, I could have never even gotten this far by myself, so please if you have an answer, guide me through it step by step. Thanks in advance.