Connecting to a remote DB

[deratrius]

Okay so I am running some website on fedora with VMWARE and my main OS is windows server 2003. I am trying to use db on the windows server but whenever I try to connect to it from fedora I get bug messages.

"Warning ! [2003] - Can't connect to MySQL server on 'ep038' (13)
Server unavailable. Is your MySQL server started ?"

I am sure that the server is started and running on port 3306.
I am sure of the hostname.
I can ping the hostname from fedora so it IS accessible.
I am sure of the login and password (I set them myself).

The weird thing is that when I run a tcpdump, apparently fedora doesnt even try to connect to the remote host database.

So I am sitting here pretty confused as to what I could do, any ideas?

 

[TonyGroves]

Could it be a DNS issue? If you use the server's IP address instead of its hostname, does that work?

 

[TonyGroves]

Sorry, you say you can ping the hostname, so that rules out DNS.

 

[deratrius]

Yeah, I also tried with the ip anyway, and with iport. Thanks for your quick answer though

It's not so important as I can run a db on the locahost anyway but I like to finish what I start and I would love to know why this doesnt work.