Greetings! I am building an application in PHP and am creating a global $connect_id for MySql. I have MySql on a separate machine and am using the connect like this: $server = "development.myservermachine.net"; $username = "myname"; $password = "mypassword"; $connect_id = mysql_connect($server, $username, $password); All I get is 'Access denied for user 'myname@PHP_MAIN' (Using password:YES) Now, I know I'm in the DNS server for my system, and the username and password are correct as I checked the User table. Any thoughts, ideas, etc. toward fixing this problem?? I'd appreciate any help provided. Robin Kopetzky Black Mesa Computer/Internet Services