From: Sachin Goyal Date: March 11 1999 10:31am Subject: Accessing MySQL database from the server running on differnet m/c List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/13 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hello, I am a newbie in Mysql use..i want to access some mysql database from a m/c other than the mysql server running m/c. I have tried to connect using mysql client...but failed..i think tha t mysql server on Server m/c only accepts unix socket connections, not tcp socket connections.. IN safe_mysqld file: original conf. #Default communication ports #MYSQL_TCP_PORT=3306 if test -z "$MYSQL_UNIX_PORT" then MYSQL_UNIX_PORT="/tmp/mysql.sock" export MYSQL_UNIX_PORT fi #export MYSQL_TCP_PORT I have tried now with '#' removed from TCP_PORT file, even than no use...what other changes i need to do... Any help will be appreciated.. sachin