Thanks to those who had suggestions. What I did to make the connection was to ADD a line to my.cnf, rather than replace the 127.0.0.1 address on the line: bind-address = 127.0.0.1 next line now says: bind-address = 192.168.xx.xx I don't know why it worked, but it did. -- Peter Lutz AA6AV Debian Linux 2.4.28