Afternoon all, I have mysql running on my workstation and on my local server, and I want to connect as an ordinary user from the workstation to the server; I can't. This is what happens:
$ mysql -p -h serv.ethnet Enter password: ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'serv.ethnet' (111) The same thing happens if I try as root. I can connect locally as myself or as root on either machine and manipulate tables in various ways. I haven't yet installed a firewall on either machine. I've set DEBUG=4 in /etc/conf.d/mysql on both machines, but nothing shows up in /var/log/mysql/*; only some startup debug messages. I've run tcpdump on the server, which shows that one packet passes in each direction, followed immediately by a reverse lookup of the workstation being sent to the name server. I don't know why nothing happens after the name-service request is answered, but it seems to imply that the workstation is refusing the request itself rather than forwarding it to the server. I can't see anything in /etc/conf.d/mysql or in /etc/mysql/* on either machine to restrict network access, so what have I missed? -- Rgds Peter
