mysql connect troubles...

Hello... I have been using mysql and php before, but recently started using them on a RH7 linux server for the first time... after some trouble, finally got php installed with mysql, using rpms... and got the same problem I saw Neil Curri posting about in the archives, the one with the Can't connect to local MySQL server > > through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) message... to which Jarmo suggested: Change your adress from "localhost" to whatever other valid (IP)adress your > MySQL server is on. That solved it for me. ... Okay, not sure what this meant exactly.... if I change my mysql_connect('localhost',.... to use my actual ip address, I then get Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Host 'myserver.test' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server in /var/www/html/georges/lookup.php3 on line 6 ... I tried inserting a user with the myserver.test host in the user table, but that did not seem to change anything... any ideas? I've been struggling with this for a couple days now... thanks, Andrew Apold nmore.com ============================= "To dwell within Samsara, however, is to be subject to the works of those mighty among dreamers." - Mahasamatman, in Zelazny's "Lord of Light" Andrew Apold