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Re: mysql refusing access from other machines



You are sure mysql is listening on all interfaces and not only lo ?

perhaps take a look to my.cnf and check if "skip-networking" is active -
if yes simply comment it and restart mysqld.

-achim

Am Mo, 2004-08-02 um 11.47 schrieb Shannon R.:
> good day all!
> 
> 
> i'm getting really confused with how to properly allow
> users to access mysql from other machines. (on debian
> woody, using all stable packages)
> 
> that is, i tried this as mysql root user:
> 
> 
> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON my_sql_db.* TO
> dbuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
> 
> 
> after this, i can access mysql as 'dbuser' from the
> localhost. the mysql servers ip add by the way is
> 192.168.1.1, and since i also want that user to be
> able to access from 192.168.1.2, i also did this
> command:
> 
> 
> GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON my_sql_db.* TO
> dbuser@192.168.1.2 IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
> 
> 
> that should have been it but whenever i try to access
> mysql from 192.168.1.2, i keep getting an "Can't
> connect to MySQL server" error.
> 
> im pretty sure i did this right, but it just wont
> work. did i do anything wrong? what could i possible
> have overlooked?
> 
> i even tried installing phpmyadmin and using it to add
> users, even going as far as adding users with host '%'
> but i just can't connect to mysql from another
> machine.
> 
> anybody have any idea what could be going on here?
> 
> 
> thanks!
> shannon
> 
> 
> 
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