Wes,

I don't think this is the issue as my passwords are all still in
the old format.  Plus, the 4.0.16 client has no problem connecting.

Thanks -keith

>Keith:

>I don't know if it's the same problem, but I recently had issues where 
>I had a similar setup with only two MySQL servers, one 4.0.20, the 
>other 4.1.3, same usernames/passwords on each.

>My solution, and I don't remember where in the manual I saw this 
>(possibly the FAQ), was to do an update to the 4.1.3 mysql user table:
>UPDATE user SET Password = OLD_PASSWORD( Password ) WHERE ... <fill in 
>with username/host/whatever>

>I believe this was because I was trying to connect to MySQL 4.1.x with 
>a 4.0.x client. I don't know if that's your case as well.
>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Old_client.html

>Wes


>On Jul 28, 2004, at 6:21 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:

>> I have a mysql connection problem that I'm trying to understand.
>>
>> The three servers and the version of mysql they are running (all under
>> Solaris9) are:
>>   db1 - 4.0.16
>>   db2 - 4.0.17
>>   db3 - 4.1.3
>>
>> All three systems have the same mysql user and passwords setup.  I'll
>> use the mythical user "xx" with password "yy" to explain here.
>> Connections with the mysql client (using "-uxx -pyy") from system to
>> system all work except this one on db2:
>>
>> mysql -hdb3 -uxx -pyy
>> ERROR 1045: Access denied for user 'xx'@'db2' (using password: YES)
>>
>> The mysql.user table entry has host=% and user=xx, so it's not simply
>> an issue of a system-specific entry allowing one and not the other.  
>> Since
>> db1 has no problem getting to db3, I wouldn't expect db2 to struggle.
>> This same problem occurs with all users, so it' is also not something
>> specific to how this user is setup.
>>
>> Does anyone know why this would be happening?
>>
>> Is there something different in 4.0.17 (compared to 4.0.16) that 
>> prevents
>> it from connecting to the 4.1.3 server?  I don't see anything in the
>> 4.0.17 change list specific to this.
>>
>> Thanks -keith
>>
>>
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