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

By default in MySQL server remote access is disabled. The process to provide a remote access to user is.

1. Go to my sql bin folder or add it to PATH
2. Login to root by mysql -uroot -proot (or whatever the root password is.)
3. On success you will get mysql>
4. Provide grant access all for that user.

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GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'IP' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

Here IP is IP address for which you want to allow remote access, if we put % any IP address can access remotely.

Example:

C:\Users\UserName> cd C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin

C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin>mysql -uroot -proot

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'root';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.27 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.25 sec)

This for a other user.

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'testUser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'testUser';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

Hope this will help