Re: Reconfiguring MySQL at startup

Marek Burakowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.windows
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ok, I got it working now. The problem was the firewall which had to be
manually given the permission to accept MySQL(it normally prompts for rule
changes.)

> Weird. I reinstalled MySQL, and it is running as a service from startup
> now,
> but I still cannot connect to it. Could it be that my firewall is
> blocking
> access? When trying: 
> telnet localhost 3306
> I responds cannot connect to host... connection failed (or something
> similar
> since I'm not using English WinXP).
> mysql -u root -p and the correct password gives ERROR 2003: Can't connect
> to
> MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061), and the same happens when using php
> scripts that connect to MySQL.
> I am using the latest MySQL with WinXPsp2 and my Firewall is F-Secure
> Client
> Security 6.0.
> 



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Marek Burakowski
email: [email protected]

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