Re: can't connect localhost

hay pat check out ur password and user and make sure ur user has all the privilleges to connect to the db try to grant privilleges to ur user all over again ..... n there aint anythin relavet to it on the manul except fo r the grant privilleges section ...... hope ive helped ...... good luck toby ...... --- Pat Johnston <patj@ncable.net.au> wrote: > Hi > I'm new at Apache, PHP, MySQL, but have been going okay on my > win2000 > machine. For months, it's been good. > > But for reason, I get this message when I try to do stuff with > mysqladmin > > ****** > mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed > error: 'Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)' > ****** > > Have I done something to cause this? > > My development sites on 'localhost' just come up with a warning > that it > can't connect to retrieve data from the MySQL database. > > I know it may be a small problem, but I can't work it out.. > I've read the manuals but I can't see anything relevant to it.. > > Thanks in advance > > Pat > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com