Hi Jordan Made any recent changes to your network configuration? Can you access other IP ports OK e.g. http port 80? Do you have any firewall protection on your PC? Can you access MySQL from the command line OK? Rich -----Original Message----- From: JordanW [mailto:jwooley@isvideo.net] Sent: 28 January 2003 04:37 To: php-db@lists.php.net Subject: MySQL Error I'm getting this error message when I try the following code: $link = mysql_connect("localhost") or die("Could not connect"); print ("Connected successfully"); mysql_close($link); The scripts outputs: Warning: Can't create TCP/IP socket (10106) in C:\Projects\WebServer\admin.php on line 3 Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't create TCP/IP socket (10106) in C:\Projects\WebServer\admin.php on line 3 Could not connect Any ideas? Thanks -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php