There are permissions that are set for users and have to be set for access over the network.
By default localhost can access it for specified users and you GRANT access to users, hosts, db combinations. Check mysql's documentation, for GRANT syntax Ex., GRANT SELECT ON dbnam.* TO [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; HTH. Aman Raheja http://www.techquotes.com On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:21:04 -0400 (EDT), Yves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Hello, > > I recently installed MySQL on Mandrake 10, not the > distro version, but the standard version from > mysql.com. > Version 4.x. > > The install went very well, I set up Webmin and am > able to access it from there. > > My question (finally) is about the network skip > setting... > Is this set to not listen to network requests by > default? > > Is there a command to enable it or a config file? > > Thanks > > Yves > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql? [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]