From: Randall Parker 

Answer: Configure the filewall to let the install program to connect to port.

I wish PC-Cillin made a distinction bewteen local and internet ports so that one
could blanket grant rights of local programs to connect to local programs via TCP/IP.
This seems a serious deficiency.

Randall Parker wrote:
> I'm installing MySQL and have just told the installer to apply the
> settings to the MySQL database. I'm getting:
>
> "The security settings could not be applied to the database because the
> connection has failed with the following error:
>
> Error No. 2003
> Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)
>
> If a personal firewall is running on your machine, please make sure you
> have opened the TCP port 3306 for connections....
>
>
> Well, I went into PC-Cillin and added the mysqld-nt.exe as an exception
> that accepted connections on port 3306. That did not help.
>
> I didn't want to do that anyway because I just want to connect to that
> port locally and not make it visible on the internet.
>
> I'm confused on what to do. Do you suppose that 'localhost' isn't
> mapping to 127.0.0.1? Or should I configure instead to use named pipes?
> I'd rather do TCP/IP so that I mirror more closely what will happen on
> the eventual deployment machine.
>
> I used to use Sygate on another machine and they let you configure each
> exe for local versus network access on each port. I do not see that sort
> of flexibility in PC-Cillin.
>
> Or do I need to add an entry for MySQL's configuration process? I'm
> going to try that next.

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