On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 17:04 -0600, jheid wrote: > > I started mysqld.exe using Wine and it seems to work. > But when I try to connect the server seems to answer somehow > (connection is established, telnet works) but it seems that no > communication takes place. mysql freezes and in telnet no response is > shown. > Are you sure mysqld.exe is listening on the expected port? The Mysql 5.5 manual clearly says that the Windows version uses a Unix socket file rather than a TCP/IP port if you set the host name to localhost or didn't specify one. If this is the case, I wouldn't expect telnet to find it because it only works over TCP/IP. Find out what port mysqld is listening on by reading its configuration file and then see what TCP ports are open by running the commands: lsof | TCP | less nmap -p1-65535 Why are you running the Windows version rather than the native Linux version of mysqld anyway? Any Windows program should be able to talk to the Linux version using a TCP connection *and* you can start the Linux version as a service and leave it running 24/7 while the Windows version under Wine will be killed when you log out, just like anything else running under Wine. Martin
