Michael Pratt wrote:
> Im about to pull what little hair I have left out.  I am trying to
> connect to a mysql database from my internal network.
>  
> Using Mandrake 10 and what ever version of MySQL it comes with.
>  
> I can connect locally to the database but from another machine forget
> it. I have assigned the Grant all to the user and even from all hosts. 
>  
> I read somewhere that by default networking is desabled in Mysql. I was
> trying to find the my.cnf but all I have is my-small medium and
> large.cnf's 
>  
> can someone shed some light on this?

If you run "netstat -lnp", is mysql's local address localhost
(127.0.0.1), "any" (0.0.0.0), or some specific address?  If it's bound
to localhost, that would be your problem.