Thanx for all the help Jay when I get this figured out, I'll drop you a note Dave On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:04, Jay Crews wrote: > Dave Robbins writes.... > > > > nah, hosts.allow and hosts.deny are clean > > like I said, I think there is some mysql trick that fixes this > > Well.......you're able to connect from localhost using 'mysql' > and telnet, right? So it looks like up to the point of the mysql > server watching port 3306, it's doing it's job. I can see that if you > were using some other client app to try to get to it, and failed, you > might ask whether it failed due to connection OR a login problem. > But I think the telnet 3306 isolates that. > > > it just seems like this would be a common problem > > have you run a similar setup and done this?? > > I tried this from my roomies laptop, on the LAN. I forget exactly > how I have the firewall set, but I think medium. > The MySQL I have if from the RH8.0 distribution, and I just let it > install itself. Other than granting permissions to my own login > name (which is the same as my Linux login, but doesn't have to be), > I have done nothing else to it. > > I connected with telnet 192.168.0.200 3306 > with no problem. > I wish I knew more about iptables (and that IS one of my tasks for the > VERY near future), but I would look in that direction. The server seems > to be running fine, it's just that 'something' is in its way. > > And I do agree with your other post. > I would not start playing around with IP tables, not knowing how to > restore what you changed, and make the whole issue more complicated. > Sorry that I cannot add more to the iptables/firewall issues. > > -- Jay Crews > jpc@jaycrews.com > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
