Can't hit from outside machines

[skiflyer]

I'm migrating my Apache/MySQL/PHP box from Windows to Unix... and now the machines which hit the MySQL database no longer seem to be able to access the MySQL databases.

The server is all setup, I'm running phpMyAdmin on it locally and all my local php scripts work fine, but a couple machines hit MySQL from the outside...

One example is a PHP script, and it gives me

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to MySQL server on 'devcentral' (10061)

Do I need to modify something so that it can be seen?

Thanks.

 

[skiflyer]

So I think it's because if I type SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'skip_networking';

I see that skip_networking is in fact turned on... eep, now I need to turn it off! Digging through the manuals, not seeing how... anyone know?

 

[skiflyer]

Sorry to be a pain... I found it...

It is in the my.cnf file as expected, but even though the variable is called skip_networking the directive is skip-networking