Question

I’m having a strange problem connecting via remote to MySQL. This is an internal LAN, so there should be no firewall issues. I’ve installed MySQL 5.0 and I’ve tried: mySQL-front and DBTools-manager. It’s always error ‘10061’, and yes, my ‘mysql’ database table permissions

I tried to restart the MySQL services, but it didn’t work. I uninstalled it and removed the MySQL folder from c:/Program Files and installed mysql again but I get the same error.

Answer 1

Error 10061 is Connection Refused. This means that you are reaching the server, but the server says that it is not accepting connections on that port.

Here’s some important information which may help you resolve the issue.

If you are using the loopback localhost or 127.0.0.1 on the client side, then you must be using the same on the server side. If the server is explicitly bound to a real IP address like 192.168.0.1, then it will not be listening on 127.0.0.1 or localhost.

You must explicitly bind to 127.0.0.1, or you must bind to all.

So, if localhost or 127.0.0.1 isn’t working on the client side, then try with the IP address.

Also, unless you have the ICMP service shut off, you will most likely succeed in pinging the loopback IP address, regardless of whether MySQL is running there. You’re pinging your own machine.