MySQL and DNS

[Exocet]

If I am running DNS on W2K and cannot seems to connect to MySQL databases, Should I use
$db_name = "login";
$table_name = "accounts";
$connection = mysql_connect("localhost(or can I use domain.com)", "user", "pass") or die("Couldn't connect.");


Each time I enter a user pass in PHP i get:

Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Access denied for user: '(my password)@ns.vestward.com' (Using password: YES) in F:\..etc ..\index.php on line 13
Couldn't connect.

[HowardTheDuck]

mysql has a strict access policy where you can set which user from which machine can access mysql (and what this user is allowed to do).

so if admin@localdomainname isn't allowed to login you must create a new user 'admin' that has access rights if he's accessing mysql from localdomainname (which he is even when u define localhost, because the reverse lookup of your IP resolves to 'localdomainname').

to edit the mysql user database i suggest to use phpmyadmin or some other graphical interface.

hth
Yours
HTD

[Exocet]

Thanks again for the reply. I do apprecitate the help