Am Mittwoch, 28. Juli 2004 11:00 schrieb Michael Neumann: > Hm, localhost=127.0.0.1 and lilith=192.168.1.xx (or something alike), > then it should not work. So this behavior is correct and the reason is that TCPSocket - UnixDomainSocket-thing Lennon wrote? root@lilith:~#netstat -lnp | grep mysql tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 2268/mysqld tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 998/mysqld unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 4454 998/mysqld /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 148042 2268/mysqld /home/ram/amp/mysql/var/mysql.sock Is the lo interface bound to the unixSocket and eth0 to the tcpSocket? I don't know any internals about network interfaces and Sockets. regards ralf ------------------------------------------------------- What's a mathematician? A machine, making theorems out of coffee.