At 14:46 -0600 3/14/02, Todd Williamsen wrote:
>I didn't realize you were trying to telnet to a client. You cannot do
>that. You need to telnet to the SERVER. Whatever the server is
He *is* telnet-ing to the server (port 3306 is the server port).
But it doesn't make sense. A Web server might be willing to speak
ASCII to you. The MySQL server is not.
>
>You need to make sure the user you are trying to use has access rights
>for the user for telnet
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Paul DuBois [mailto:paul@stripped]
>Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:19 PM
>To: Jianping Zhu
>Cc: mysql@stripped
>Subject: Re: problem in telent to mysql server
>
>
>At 14:58 -0500 3/14/02, Jianping Zhu wrote:
>>I use:
>>telnet mysqlserverhostname 3306
>>
>>and get following response:
>>
>> Host 'mylocalcomputer' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
>>What does this mean? and how to fix the problem?
>
>The MySQL client-server protocol is a binary protocol.
>It makes no sense to telnet to the server.
>
>>
> >Thanks
