RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine. -- Resolved !!

2002-10-19 Thread Will Merrell
Well, after much fussing around with RPM's and searching this list, I have resolved my problem. The clue was the discussion on this list regarding the glibc bug. I upgraded to the 4.0.x RPM's that I got from the MySQL site and after I got all of the dependency problems fixed I was able to start

RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine.

2002-10-18 Thread Randy Witt
Will, Do you have a user/host pair for the client in the user table within the mysql database?? It's not good enough just to have a user, the host has to be setup too. I cannot connect from my Windows machine to the MySQL database running on the Linux server. I have tried several different

Re: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine.

2002-10-18 Thread Olaf van Zandwijk
Hi, It seems to me that you can't connect to MySQL from an other machine at all. Did you start MySQL with the --skip-networking option? Try removing that option from the start-up scripts. \Olaf Will Merrell wrote: I cannot connect from my Windows machine to the MySQL database running on the

RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine.

2002-10-18 Thread Will Merrell
Thank you to both of you who responded to my question. I have checked both of these issues and found that neither solve my situation. 1) I have (and had) both a 'will@localhost' and a 'will@%' entry in the user table. Is there something else that has to be done to set up the host? 2) According

RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine.

2002-10-18 Thread STIBS
Will, |||)So I still need some more ideas. I have to learn your problem each time again when I setup a new machine every half a year. I try each time the following hostnames: localhost (didn't work 4u) 127.0.0.1 (IP for localhost) hostname (e.g. databaseserver.mydomain.com- what you called

RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine.

2002-10-18 Thread Will Merrell
Thank you, but at this point I am pretty sure that my problem is not a matter of entries in the user table. When I attempt to telnet into port 3306 the connection is immediately dropped. I don't really know if any connection is actually established at all, it may be established and immediately

RE: Connecting to MySQL on Linux from a Windows machine.

2002-10-18 Thread Ed Carp
Thank you, but at this point I am pretty sure that my problem is not a matter of entries in the user table. When I attempt to telnet into port 3306 the connection is immediately dropped. I don't really know if any connection is actually established at all, it may be established and