MariaDB error 2003: Can't connect to MySQL server on x.x.x.x

Colin Law clanlaw at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 02:54:51 EDT 2017


On 16 October 2017 at 23:03, Joe Harrington
<joe at the-harrington-house.com> wrote:
> Server and client are each on machines connected to different local
> networks.
> gnucash version 2.6.18 (3a9fbb8) and MariaDB 10.1.26 (xampp v.7.1.9-0-VC14)
> all machines running Windows 10
>
> trying to open db using external address of server network.
>
> server is bound to 0.0.0.0
>
> user has full privilege with ip address of x.x.x.x
>
> where x.x.x.x is local ip address of client machine and
> external address of client network and
> local address of gateway on server network
>
> gateway on server network is configured to forward port 3306 to ip of server
> on local network.
>
> I tried all combinations that made any sense to me and all return same
> error.
>

Can you access the db from diffferent client software? A command line
access utility for example? If you can't do that it is not a gnucash
issue.

Colin

> I CAN open db running gnucash on same machine as server using 'localhost'
> and on a different machine on the same local network using local address of
> server. User has privilege with local ip of 2nd machine and local address of
> server.
>
> What do I try next?
>
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