-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: none none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Perhaps you did'nt grant access to for your home workstation IP > address to have permission to log into the mysql server? Check out the > grant command: > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/GRANT.html
If that was the case the error would be permission denied, not error 2003. Error 2003 usually comes up when the server cannot be reached because of firewall type issues. > > Previous Message: > ===================================================== > I am trying to connect from my windows box at home using mysql.exe to > a MySQL server at work on a Gentoo box. > > My command line is: > mysql -h host.domain.com -u root -p > > (of course the host.domain.com is replaced with my server's FQDM) > > > The output is: > ERROR 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'host.domain.com' (10061) > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]