Remote Mysql access

Question

I have problem to connect remote LAN MYSQL. While try following commands it shows the following error.

$ mysql -u root -h 192.168.1.15 -p
mysql>

Answer 1

You should also check that your MySQL server has been configured to accept remote TCP connections.

In your MySQL configuration file (my.cnf), you need the following at least:

port         = 3306          # Port MySQL listens on
bind-address = 192.168.1.15  # IP address of your server
# skip-networking            # This should be commented out to enable networking

The default in some configurations is for the bind-address to be 127.0.0.1, or to skip networking completely, which means only local or unix socket connections are possible. This is for security reasons.

You can also configure the bind-address to be 0.0.0.0 which means it will bind on all IP addresses on the server.

And lastly, check your firewall configuration to allow port 3306.