Do you have a MySQL acccount set up on the localhost? I usually create two users with the same privs. One for the localhost where the server is, another to connect from somewhere else.
Something like mysql> grant usage on *.* to 'user'@'localhost' identitfied by 'some_pass'; mysql> grant usage on *.* to 'user'@'%' to identified by 'some_pass'; Check out http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/adding-users.html Hope this helps. rodmc wrote: > I have written an application that connects to a database on a remote > machine which uses MySQLdb 1.2.0. The application works perfectly when > connecting to the database from a remote machine, however when it > attempts to connect to a database on the same machine a connection > error is generated. I have attached what little info I can below. > > DBSERVERIP = "1.2.3.4" > db = MySQLdb.connect(host=DBSERVERIP, user="user", passwd="password", > db="nuke") > --- it refuses to connect on the above line and the exception is caught > and a message displayed. > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
