Good day, im glad you seem to have resolved your problem, i shall comment on your comments.....
"Sam Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I appreciate your attempts to help, but you must understand that when > attempts to help just cause time to be wasted, then it might be appropriate > to not appreciate the help. Its no waste of time to attempt a solution, if it doesnt work, youve eliminated that solution. That is one step closer. >Then when I try to explain that you are not > helping, you make comments such as this, trying to blame me. If I am the > only person you do this to, then I can live with it. If however you do this > to others, then I hope you are told by others that you are trying too hard > to help and that you resort to insulting others when you don't help. Im bashing my head on the wall now.... > > Perhaps there is some validity to what you are saying, but you are also > saying some things that are not valid, which makes it difficult or > impossible to determine what is valid. I do try to tell you in reasonably > polite and useful ways that much of what you say is not helpful. Obviously I > need to just ignore your help instead. > Now that you have figured out, that it is possible its your firewall, which, many, and i think you claimed before was impossible, what exactly makes you sure i said anything invalid. Now that my rant is done, i made it clear, that i i have solved a problem with your EXACT error msg before. That makes this not a guess, but an educated and experienced suggestion. and yes, all forms of help on this form are as such. Yup, im an a$$hole , i dont like being completely shutdown by people requesting help, when i take the time to impart some experience... J > > "Jason Davidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > There is an issue with sp2 and loopback, you can argue all you like, but > > many have had this problem, and many have resolved it. Mysql will not > > connect through udp, it will use tcp. If you supply a hostname in your > > connect function, it will use tcpip to connect over a port, if oyu dont > > supply a hostname, or i beleive put a '.' in its place, it will attempt > > to connect through a named pipe which doesnt use the network. In the > > time you spend writing this email, you could have attemped a suggested > > solution. > > > > A little more acceptance to help would gain a lot more respect from me, > > not that you probably care about others respect. > > > > And for further note, for the sake of discussion, as you have mentioned > > to me on a certain forum. A firewall can absolutely interfere with a > > connection to mysql even if you are using localhost, if, and only if, > > that connection is being done over tcpip, which in unix, is rarely, but > > in windows, is not all that rare. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php