Enable remote MySQL connection: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user

Question

MySQL 5.1.31 running on Windows XP.

From the local MySQL server (192.168.233.142) I can connect as root as follows:

>mysql --host         


        

Answer 1

I was getting the same error after granting remote access until I made this:

From /etc/mysql/my.cnf

In newer versions of mysql the location of the file is /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf

# Instead of skip-networking the default is now to listen only on
# localhost which is more compatible and is not less secure.
#bind-address           = 127.0.0.1

(comment this line: bind-address = 127.0.0.1)

Then run service mysql restart.