On 9/2/05, John Dangler <jdangler@atlantic.net> wrote: 
> 
> how can I setup my laptop to connect to apps like phpmyadmin on the local
> fileserver?
> both are running gentoo 2.6.12-r9 .
> vfs is setup and running, but when I try to connect from the laptop to the
> fileserver on other apps like
> phpmyadmin, I get "The connection was refused when attempting to contact
> 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>"
> I'm using http://192.168.1.10/phpmyadmin in the browser, so it would 
> appear
> as though the message is saying it's trying to connect to 'localhost'.
> 
> I can't verify this at the moment as I'm not within reach of my network 
but I do believe that you have a misconfiguration in either MyAdmin or 
MySQL. Check your my.cnf first and make sure that the line skip-networking 
is commented out. 
 BTW... By localhost it is most likely the server referring to itself not 
your computer trying to connect back to itself.
 -Mike
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Michael E. Crute
Software Developer
SoftGroup Development Corporation

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