I created a new user, and assigned privileges. Then tried to connect to the server and was denied access, because of a conflict between the mysql CLIENT version and the mysql server code due to the password encryption scheme installed in version 4.1 of mysql. Running the following line fixed the problem SET PASSWORD FOR 'my_username'@'my_host' = OLD_PASSWORD(\my_pass'); Thanks -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php