MySQL Help - Remote Access

[Christopher Browne]

On 6/27/06, Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> A bit off topic but I am using a (Red Hat) Linux server.
>
> I have Apache, PHP, Samba, and local connections to MySQL running just fine.
>
> I want to do remote connections using MySQL administrator.
>
> I have added rows (Using GRANT) in the user table with host set to * for
> the accounts I want to use. (This is on a private network, and for testing).
>
> I flushed the privileges, and even rebooted the machine.
>
> But I get an error saying I cannot connect from the remote computer.
>
> Is there some global setting in a config file, or something else I must do?

Is it possible that there is some sort of firewall setting that is
denying remote access?

It would make a lot of sense for there to be a default setting
somewhere [possibly in "network world"] that rejects remote
connections; that represents a "secure by default" behaviour, which is
pretty preferable, as compared to having things wide open, ready for
Bad People to do Bad Things...
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Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This
is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and
`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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