From: Michael Widenius Date: March 14 1999 12:40pm Subject: FYI Install. problems and connecting to port 3306 List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/win32/5 Message-Id: <14059.44536.654581.432015@monty.pp.sci.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >>>>> "Peter" == Peter WR writes: Peter> Hi, Peter> This is just for information, in case other will need this sooner or later. Peter> I'm running NT 4.0 US server, Pentium 300 MHz and have a lot of stuff Peter> loaded. Peter> I just downloaded the NT eval. version of MySQL. I had problems getting Peter> contact to the server, and after following the manuals I found out, that the Peter> server did not respons on port 3306. Peter> I ended having to starts the MySQL server in a DOS promt ... Peter> c:\mysql\bin\mydqld-opt --port=3306 Peter> Now it is OK. Hi! MySQL should always work with TCP/IP if you have TCP/IP installed; If you don't have TCP/IP installed, the above shouldn't affect anything. Could you please mail me the output from: c:\mysql\bin\mydqld-opt --help so that I can check your setup. Regards, Monty