On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:25:16 AllenJB wrote: > Check the bind-address setting in /etc/my.cnf - if this is 127.0.0.1 > then no other machines will be able to connect to the mysql server. To > listen on all available interfaces, this setting should be "0.0.0.0" or > unset.
That was it - thanks. I'll raise a document bug to have this added to the MySQL startup guide, which talks gaily of connecting to various hosts, but not how to make that possible. > Also check that skip-networking is not enabled. It's disabled by default, and I knew I didn't want to enable it. -- Rgds Peter
