I would guess something is wrong with the services that are running on your machine, maybe MySQL isn't on the same machine as your PHP? ... Also, are you running this on a Windows machine or UNIX? Matt. -----Original Message----- From: JordanW [mailto:jwooley@isvideo.net] Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:37 PM 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 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php