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Asked: 2026-05-30T23:10:36+00:00

I’m attempting to connect to a remote server, which I’ll refer to as machine

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I’m attempting to connect to a remote server, which I’ll refer to as machine A. I’ve created a user following the instructions here

CREATE USER 'monty'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'localhost'
      WITH GRANT OPTION;
CREATE USER 'monty'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'some_pass';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'%'
      WITH GRANT OPTION;

On machine A I can run the command

mysql -u monty -h website.com -p

This connects to sql with no problem. However, when attempting to do this from some machine B I receive the error:

ERROR 2003 (HY000): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'website.com' (113)

I’ve also commented out the following line:

# bind-address      = 127.0.0.1

in the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file. Still no luck connecting from a remote connection. Any obvious things that I might be missing? Any feedback as always is very much appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think it’s your GRANT that needs fixing.

    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'localhost'

    Might need to be 

    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'monty'@'website.com'

    You’re going to want to make sure things are secure though.
    It’s usually best practice to try not to allow outside mysql connects that aren’t from localhost.

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