Can you give some more specifics? Is it network error ? authorization error ? I would check in the following sequence. Network connectivity, ping/http/ssh Local connections, mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u user Firewall settings, telnet <servername> 3306 mysql authorization, I use the gui tools to set the permissions another hint, try tunneling through ssh and see if that works ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 user@server HTH Arun On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 08:56 -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > I'm running MySQL on Fedora and need to connect to the server from a > Windows computer on the LAN. The connection is failing. What piece of > magic is required on the Fedora side to allow it? > > Thanks in advance. > ---Michael >