Romeo Petruca wrote: > wine mysql.exe -h localhost -u root -p First of all, why are you using windows' version or 'mysql' client and not native Linux version? Romeo Petruca wrote: > i got this error: > ERROR 2005 (HY000): Unknown MySQL server host 'localhost' (10093) Most likely it's trying to use pipe and fails of course. Add '--protocol=TCP' option.