Joyce, Matthew said: > > > I have a debian woody box running mysql from apt-get. > > PHP4 on the same box can connect ok, but I cannot connect from another > machine on the same subnet. > > Do I have to specifically allow other non localhost connections ? debian by default last I checked had the option 'skip-networking' for mysql, which disabled all tcp connections. I think the file is /etc/mysql/my.cnf, comment it out and restart mysql. nate