On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 5:22 pm, Steve Hodge wrote: > Have you got bind-address set properly in /etc/mysql/my.cnf? If that's > set to localhost you won't be able to connect from any other machine. Thanks, that now gets me in with:- mysql -h 192.168.10.27 -u mythtv -p Now to play more with the priveledges