Can't get mysqldump to connect to local mysql instance (error 2003 / 10061)
I've got mysql 5.1 on a windows xp machine. It's listening on port 3308. I'm trying to use mysqldump: > mysqldump -u root -pmypassword dbname > out.sql Getting an error: mysqldump: Got error: 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061) when trying to connect Not sure what the problem is, looking at --help dumps variables and shows port=3308 as I set in the mysql installation (instead of default 3306). I don't think there's anything different with my installation. I also tried explicitly setting the port # on the command line but still same error. Thanks To connect through a port