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- NoPantsJim - 2011-02-27 19:27
TugboatBill Wrote:Instead of trying to use an extended name I would use the IP and route the port at the firewall. It may have issues if the response times are slow, but the only way to know for sure is to try it. A big issue would be proper naming of the source so that both locations can access it/them.
Maybe I wasn't being 100% clear. The MySQL database would be on a Dreamhost.com server, not on any local network.
- svenh - 2011-03-01 00:46
NoPantsJim Wrote:Maybe I wasn't being 100% clear. The MySQL database would be on a Dreamhost.com server, not on any local network.
Yeah that should work okay. You just have to make sure you do NOT have the "skip-name-resolve" option set, otherwise it won't try to do a DNS lookup for that URL and that would cause it to not work.
- P_Jamula - 2011-03-22 08:27
Hi all:
i am a beginner. I need to install XBMC on 3 machines and make my DB reside on a QNAP TS-859 NAS. the Qnap supposedly has mysql as a builtin capability.
could someone please guide me how i may define the database on the QNAP and then access from XBMC Windows 7 64bit based machines located in different rooms of my house? any help will be greatly appreciated. Please remember i am not a computer expert and know nothing about databases or mysql. thanks in advance.
- P_Jamula - 2011-03-25 07:57
P_Jamula Wrote:Hi all:
i am a beginner. I need to install XBMC on 3 machines and make my DB reside on a QNAP TS-859 NAS. the Qnap supposedly has mysql as a builtin capability.
could someone please guide me how i may define the database on the QNAP and then access from XBMC Windows 7 64bit based machines located in different rooms of my house? any help will be greatly appreciated. Please remember i am not a computer expert and know nothing about databases or mysql. thanks in advance.
Any help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee
- tboooe - 2011-03-25 16:22
P_Jamula Wrote:Any help pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee
I dont have a QNAP but my NAS also comes with mysql. You should be able to go into the QNAP web management interface and find a menu item that lets you start the mysql admin page. It may be using myphpadmin interface. Once you get into that interface everything should be straight forward. Let me know if you are able to get this far and I can help you with the rest.
- P_Jamula - 2011-03-26 08:02
tboooe Wrote:I dont have a QNAP but my NAS also comes with mysql. You should be able to go into the QNAP web management interface and find a menu item that lets you start the mysql admin page. It may be using myphpadmin interface. Once you get into that interface everything should be straight forward. Let me know if you are able to get this far and I can help you with the rest.
Thanks for the tip. i am a bit busy these days and will start looking at this in the next couple of weeks. will revert back one way or another.
- labtopia - 2011-04-03 15:52
this does not seem to work, i am giving up after 2hrs of reading the posts and everything. perhaps it would be a great feature request for the new version to be able to serve a central xbmc installation.
- clambert - 2011-04-03 16:20
labtopia Wrote:this does not seem to work, i am giving up after 2hrs of reading the posts and everything. perhaps it would be a great feature request for the new version to be able to serve a central xbmc installation.
I think what you must mean is that it doesn't work for you. I'd hate for you to accidentally mislead others because the process does indeed work. I have 3 devices all sharing the same database every day.
In my situation I have MySQL running on my Windows Home Server, the same place all my video and music is stored. Connected to the WHS I have 2 laptops and a Shuttle HTPC. It totally works just fine. Maybe you should just table the idea for a bit and come back to it again when you feel up to it.
Thank you so much for this - akira6968 - 2011-04-08 13:44
It might be a lil more complicated for me, I've got a weird setup.
PC's: 1xWin2k8 1xWin2k3 9xWin7 (4 Game PC's, 2 Laptops, HTPC, Music server, Game server).
With a domain setup, each person that logs in has login scripts. I have XBMC set up on two servers, one that scrapes all movies and one that scrapes only PG13 movies (I'm organized lol). So when my kids log in, a script runs that copies the userdata folder from the server that scrapes PG13 movies. Of course this overwrites all the 'watched' checks and 'start from' points
Hopefully I can figure out how to use the MySQL, and the local-scrape setup, AND still make it always copy the interface setup. This way if I log onto a PC for the first time, when I open XBMC it will only show 'Movies', 'TV Shows', and 'Settings', instead of the default 'Videos', 'Weather', etc.
XBMC is so awesome, and so are all you guys for all the help XD
- pumkinut - 2011-04-10 00:04
tboooe Wrote:I dont have a QNAP but my NAS also comes with mysql. You should be able to go into the QNAP web management interface and find a menu item that lets you start the mysql admin page. It may be using myphpadmin interface. Once you get into that interface everything should be straight forward. Let me know if you are able to get this far and I can help you with the rest.I'd love to see a follow-up on this. I just got a Synology DS211j NAS and would be thrilled to be able to host the centralized database on it.