Re: [cobalt-users] MySQL problem

["Andy Clyde, oxfordmusic.net" <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Andy Clyde wrote :
> > weird thing is that i can connect from slave via command line with:
> > mysql -h ma.st.er.ip -u username -p
>
> When you say you can connect from the slave via command line, do you mean
> you can telnet (or somesuch) and then connect to mysql once you have
created
> a command line session on the master?
>
> If so, then good news! Your problem's easily solved.
>
> You need to create a new user in mysql for username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -
chances
> are that the user you are trying to connect as is set up as user@localhost
> which means that MySQL will deny any attempts to connect as this user from
> outside the box.
>

i had done that already but the extra user i had created for dsl.domain.com
didn't have FILE privileges. doh!

andy