On Friday 22 March 2002 07:42, Marcus Rigby wrote:
> Hi all,
> I know there are plenty of remote connection posts here....but none have
> helped me solve my problem.
>
> I have 2 win98 machines on a novell network, both have static IP
> addresses, and both machines can ping each other. One machine is
> running a webserver and the other the Mysql server, and I cannot get
> scripts on the webserver to connect to MySql.
>
> Using :
> $dbcnx = mysql_connect("xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", "user", "pword");
> if (!$dbcnx) {
> echo( "<P>Unable to connect to the " .
> "database server at this time.Try again later</P>" );
> exit();
> }
>
> RESULTS in the error message Unable to connect to the database
> server.....
>
> When I do a netstat -a on the PC with MySQL I dont see any listening
> ports, should there be.
Well there should be.
You can try
telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 3306
If that fails then you most likely don't have mysql running on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
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