Hello Andy, Thursday, December 4, 2003, 3:27:11 PM, you wrote: AL> Im afraid ive already tried that. Are you sure your MySQL server is actually configured to ALLOW someone to login remotely? I know most of the ones I work with aren't. This isn't a setting you'll find in phpMyAdmin btw. Most MySQL servers are locked down in this way for (very good) security reasons, to the point that it wouldn't surprise me if this wasn't the default after installation (I don't know for sure it is though). -- Best regards, Richard mailto:rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php