Can't connect to MySQL from remote computer on network

[Michael Satterwhite]

Thanks. It was a firewall setting (should have thought of that).

Arun Binaykia wrote:
> Can you give some more specifics? Is it network error ? authorization
> error ?
> 
> I would check in the following sequence.
> 
> Network connectivity, ping/http/ssh
> Local connections, mysql -h 127.0.0.1  -u user
> Firewall settings, telnet <servername> 3306
> mysql authorization, I use the gui tools to set the permissions
> 
> 
> another hint, try tunneling through ssh and see if that works
> ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 user at server
> 
> HTH
> Arun
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:56 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
>> I'm running MySQL on Fedora and need to connect to the server from a
>> Windows computer on the LAN. The connection is failing. What piece of
>> magic is required on the Fedora side to allow it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> ---Michael
>>
> 


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