On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:36:20PM -0000, Gregory Machin wrote: > i'm a beginner at mysql server - and i have the following problem i can > connect to my database which is residing on my mail server from my web > server. the my.cnf looks correct and has the port 3306 set , but can't > telnet in eather . You've to comment out the 'skip-networking'-entry in /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Bye, Jan.