MySQL unable to connect with remote server

Question

We have a MySQL server in one of the remote Virtual Machine (Windows Server 2008). Till yesterday we were able to connect to the MySQL server, with the help of workbench install

Answer 1

mysql administrator of your database should allow remote connection to the mysql server. change this in my.cnf:

bind-address    = 127.0.0.1 # this shoul be your mysql server ip

and comment this:

# skip-networking