On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 12:10 -0600, jheid wrote: > I'm using the following command > > wine mysqld.exe -O lower_case_table_names=0 --lower_case_table_names=0 > --innodb_data_file_path=ibdata1:100M --innodb_data_home_dir=Z:\ > \mysql-win-demo\\data\\ibdata --innodb_log_group_home_dir=Z:\ > \mysql-win-demo\\data\\ibdata\\log --innodb_mirrored_log_groups=1 > --innodb_log_files_in_group=3 --innodb_log_file_size=5M > --innodb_log_buffer_size=8M --innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 > --innodb_buffer_pool_size=16M --innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=2M > --innodb_file_io_threads=4 --innodb_lock_wait_timeout=50 > --master-port=8808 --port 8808 --default-character-set=latin1 > --basedir=Z:\\mysql-win-demo --datadir=Z:\\mysql-win-demo\\data > --console --standalone --bind-address=127.0.0.1 > > with mysql-5.1.55-win32.zip. I haven't edited any configuration file. > You'd save a lot of typing by putting most of these in a configuration file, my.cnf, any putting that in C:\my.cnf or in the same directory as mysqld.exe. Try adding a line containing "hostname=localhost" to the configuration file. > This works in a DOS shell but not with my Ubuntu.... > Please explain: by 'not with my Ubuntu' do you mean running mysqld.exe under Wine or do you mean using the native Linux mysqld executable? I thought you said you were trying the Linux version after getting no joy with the EXE. Martin