From: Daevid Vincent Date: December 9 2002 8:09pm Subject: RE: Can't connect error 10061 - nothing but Mascon works remotely. List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/127049 Message-Id: <000501c29fbe$f3478b30$dc0aa8c0@Locutus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > [root@daevid]# mysqladmin ping -h daevid.com -uroot -p > [root@daevid]# > > mysqladmin ping -h 192.168.1.254 -uroot -p mysqld is alive > > But as I see, you tried the ping from the local host (i.e. > you connected from the same machine where the MySQL server is > running). What happens if you try this from the Win XP box? I don't have mySQL installed on the XP box, so I can't run mysqladmin.